Comet Neowise is a great sight in a modestly dark sky. However, with binoculars you can see it faintly from any suburban street. If you know where to look, you can see it from downtown Chicago, I bet, although you do need a clear view of the horizon as it is still low in the northeast. It is rising earlier (therefore gets higher and easier to see) each of the nights this week so this is prime time to see it. There are plenty of websites with directions on how to find it, but if you can find the bowl of the Big Dipper, you can easily find the comet with binoculars. In a darkish sky, like the one at the Greene Valley Forest Preserve a close suburbub near our house in Lisle, you can see the comet, just barely, by naked eye. Last night, the comet passed right by a background star, that you can see in this close-up shot (below). Anyway, get out and see it this week as this comet won't be back for 6,800 years. I was able to see it from my driveway two night ago under suburban lights in Naperville. I went to Greene Valley in Lisle to get a darker view. Not a spectacular comet, but well worth seeing.
