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Very nice view here in the Pacific Northwest. Cold front left crystal clear skies.

I was able to find Venus at about 4:50 PM local time, then found the comet in the binocs at around 5:05. I had been looking about 5 degrees too far to the south so it might have been visible a few minutes earlier.

The twilight was still quite bright orange behind the comet so the head does have to be really bright to stand out. The tail was nicely visible and very distinct in the 20X60 binocs.

For a very short time (a few minutes) I could make out the comet with the naked eye, but it is small and I probably would have missed it had the optics not shown me where to look.

The head of the comet set about 5:20 local time and all I could see of the tail a couple minutes later. There were four or five other cars and one bicycle out looking where I was.