I can haz comet!
Yeay! Okay, this is NASA's apod picture from the 2nd of December, and I definitely didn't see the spiral galaxy, and actually I didn't even see the comet looking like that either, but... I saw the fuzzy grey blob that is the comet through binoculars! Whoo-hoo! And thank you very much to snailbones who saw it yesterday and described it as a fuzzy grey blob so that when I finally saw it I recognised it straight away. *vbg* I spent ages not looking in the right place, but I persevered with the various quite-vague-really charts I could find on t'interweb, and I found it! As soon as I did there was no mistaking it for a star either, which is what I thought I'd probably do.
So yeay - for the first time in my life, because I've missed all the other ones, including the apparently spectacular Hale-Bopp (*sniffs*) - I've seen a comet, zooming its way across the universe! *vbg*