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Old 02-24-2009, 12:11 PM
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Comet Lulin

Anyone tried to observe Comet Lulin yet?

I headed out a little after 9:00 last night with my 10X Orion astronomical binocs and picked it out so quickly, I went back in to check the sky char to make sure I wasn't seeing a nebula.

Sho nuf, right there next to Saturn and below Leo, Comet Lulin. It was still in the loom of College Station (50 miles away) so I couldn't make out much of a tail but it was sort of lopsided. Got up again at 3:30 am and picked it out right away...not discernible to my naked eye but easily seen with binocs. Not much of a tail visible.
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