data from accuweather.com and clear sky clock:

time (CST) 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm
temperature (F) 60 55 55 53 50 50
dewpoint (F) 42 37 36 34 32 32
humidity (%) 51 51 50 48 49 50
w-dir WNW NW NNW NNW N N
w-spd (MPH) 9 10 11 12 11 10
cloud (clear x/10) 10 10 10 10 10 10
transparency x/5 5 5 5 5 5 5
seeing x/5 1 1 1 1 1 2
darkness (lim. mag.) 6.2 6.2 6.2 6.2 6.2 6.2

Orbital and physical characteristics for computing star charts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_TU24

Starry Night shows 2007 TU24 high in NW around 8pm; also shows it passing in front of open cluster M34 between 8:15pm and 8:25pm. Starry night also computed apparent magnitude (using data from wikipedia) as bright as 9.0. NASA HORIZONS, however, estimates the brightest at 10.5 — quite a bit fainter (and probably more accurate). Poor seeing conditions not going to help, but the rate at which this thing will be moving makes me want to try.

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