iirc the gov only cares if your melting down coins on masse

well good news is that its still visible, ideally you would get out to a dark sky but its probably naked eye in normal light pollution (assuming your not in an inner city), certainly binocular visible

why dont you just take a bunch of 10 second frames and stack them in something like deepskystacker or siril?

and this is probably sohos final comet of this magnitude, certainly ending on a high note

ah neat, cool to see people actually using the color filters for color images

corndogs

no sorry I cant