I looked for Comet West at the time, but, due to living in a highly light polluted area on the East coast of the U.S., I never got to see it. Fast-forward to 1983 where I enjoyed observing Comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock. It was a fast moving comet, covering about 30-degrees of sky each day. That means that the comet moved just over 1-degree, two Moon diameters, per hour in the sky. It was also a very close comet, coming to 2,700,000 miles of the Earth. -Fred