I think that was it!

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After five consecutive nights of trying, to greater or lesser degrees, I think I may have seen the comet through the 7x50 mm binoculars we originally bought in 1986 to see Halley's comet (the fuzzy garbanzo bean, as it was famously called that year). Standing in the driveway tonight, judging from the map of ursa major, I think the fuzzy thing just below the power wires was it. Over the nights I've also seen a shooting star and a satellite. Good enough.