Backyard stargazers with a telescope or binoculars and a clear night's sky can now inspect the comet that in a little over two weeks will become only the fifth in history to be imaged close up. Comet Hartley 2 will come within 11 million miles of Earth this Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 3 p.m. EDT. NASA's EPOXI mission will come within 435 miles of Hartley 2 on November 4th.