A dark site is a must to see it.
All you need is a lounge chair, a thermos of something to keep you warm, a blanket and a dark site.
Since it has a very low surface brightness, it is best viewed from a dark site away from city lights.
Find a dark site each night; your children may never want to go to bed.
It is viewable in binoculars from a dark site owing to its high surface brightness of 10.1 and overall magnitude of 9.0.
Due to its elevation and distance from nearby cities, making it a dark site, it is a favorite of star party enthusiasts.
By early May 2012, the comet had brightened to magnitude 13.5, and could be seen visually when using a large amateur telescope from a dark site.
It benefits from a very dark site, and its altitude of 3,600 meters (12,000 feet) above sea level means atmospheric turbulence is greatly reduced.
This type of tourism involves visits to "dark" sites, such as battlegrounds, scenes of horrific crimes or acts of genocide, for example: concentration camps.
Hanwell Castle is now the base for Hanwell Community Observatory where the grounds provide a dark site for astronomy.