Only starting star gazing recently - heard that 103P/Harley is visable from now to its peak on the 20th October. Read on the internet that it should be visable in the constellation of Cygnus in the UK. However - that is one big constellation - is there anyway to be more accurate or a website with a diagram? Thanks!|||It's not in Cygnus, it's in Lacerta. A finder chart is at the link below. You'll need at least a 10-inch telescope to see this faint comet.|||The Heavens Above website lists the brightest comets at any given time.
103P /Hartley isn't making the list.
Seiichi Yoshida does have it listed in his website of the brightest comets.|||More like Pegasus, Andromeda and Lacerta, not Cygnus.
Presently about mag 10 so you will need a telescope.|||Cant find a chart yet but they usually get posted nearer the event, ask again nearer the date or buy an astronomy magazine for October, Astronomy Now and BBC sky at night in the UK, Sky and Telescope or Astronomy in the USA
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