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Just came inside from my observatory with my wife and son after observing Comet Lulin. There was not a cloud in the sky and the seeing was 8/10.
It was very easy to locate with my 8 x 50 finder.
Observed with a 31mm Nagler in my 16" F4.5 scope. The TFOV for the 31mm Nagler in this scope is 83.5 arc mins. The comet was clearly visible to the naked eye, estimate it to be about mag 5.5. With the very bright nucleus on the Eastern edge of the FOV the tail extended beyond the FOV to slightly North of West. I would estimate the tail to be about 100 arc mins. The tail was quite well defined and relatively narrow, could not really make out an anti tail.
We all could detect it with the naked eye and it was about 20 degrees above our local Eastern horizon when we were observing it.
Regards
Trevor
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