Southern Halley's Comet

The star field of far southern Scorpius - except that I can't see that from my current location. This is a view of the sky to the south at 4:00am in northern Florida (south of Tallahassee). Look closely at the stars in the center of the picture. The one with the wide, fuzzy short tail is actually Comet Halley! It was outbound from the Sun then and almost 40 million miles from Earth. Not a good apparition, barely coming within 4th magnitude in brightness. It returns about every 76.1 yrs and will grace our sky better in August evenings (across the Big Dipper) of the year 2061. The comet will be furthest from the Sun outside Neptune's orbit in 2024, to be inbound afterward. It is the source body of the Orionid and Eta Aquarid meteor showers.