The mounting turns out to be the important thing

[fivemack]

With a clever bit of mechanism to keep it pointed in the right direction, you can get quite reasonable pictures of the stars with a moderately fancy camera and lens from a desolate fen a mile outside Horningsea:

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[rwl.livejournal.com]

This confirms for me that Comet Lovejoy is not nearly the noteworthy object that some news reports describe it.