Comet Update: C/2012 K5 Linear and Happy New Year

  C/2012 K5 Linear is now nearing the constellation Auriga, and will zoom through that constellation over the next few days. K5 is now starting to reverse it's brightening and grow higher in magnitude. It is currently around mag. 8, and will dim to around mag. 10 by mid-January. Here is the latest image I was able to capture on the night of the 31st of December:

                   
                   Happy New Year!