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Two months after perihelion and six weeks on from its impressive showing in the evening sky this comet is fading now as it heads out of the inner Solar System, never to return. It is still visible from the UK low in the west early in the evening. It has been passing over a dark lane in the Milky Way as it moves from Serpens to Aquila but it is now about to cross some very dense star clouds. NGC 6755 is the large open cluster southeast of the comet's head and NGC6756 is the cluster in the tail.