The view through my Swift 10X50 binoculars is simply beautiful! It is recorded in the sketch at left. The display is magnificent despite high altitude cirrus. Hale-Bopp is currently touring Sagitta, positioned about 1 degree south of Delta Sag. The pseudo-nucleus appears stellar, enveloped within a dense, bright coma. The gas and dust tails make for a spectacular sight. The broad, fanning gas tail can be followed for 1.5 degrees to the northwest and averted vision suggests extension for another 1.5 degrees. A sharply curving dust tail arches to the west-southwest and can be easily followed for 45 arc minutes. Averted vision suggests extension of this tail for another 30 arc minutes or so. The comet is within 2 degrees of the 9th magnitude globular cluster M71.