Also saw it again about 3am - still cant see naked eye, but lovely and very easy in binoculars.
This from Spaceweather.com today
COMET LULIN UPDATE: Comet Lulin is approaching Earth and brightening rapidly. Observers say it is now visible to the naked eye as a faint (magnitude +5.6) gassy patch in the constellation Virgo before dawn. Even city dwellers have seen it. Backyard telescopes reveal a vivid green comet in obvious motion. Just yesterday, amateur astronomers watched as a solar wind gust tore away part of the comet's tail, the second time this month such a thing has happened. Lulin's closest approach to Earth (38 million miles) is on Feb. 24th; at that time the comet could be two or three times brighter than it is now. Browse the gallery for the latest images: http://spaceweather.com/comets/gallery_lulin_page8.htm
Using the naked eye I estimate Lulin to be magnitude 5.5 now, about equal to the star 21 Vir (mag 5.47). Using a 12" Dob and an 8mm EP (field 25') I estimate the diameter to be 12'. The core is almost stellar. The tail is at least 80' long. It is brighter than the anti tail but narrower. The anti tail is about 50' long. I observed the tails with a 21mm EP with field 65'. The comet's movement with respect to a nearby mag 8.6 star was obvious. This image by Gregg Ruppel on 16/2 gives an idea http://spaceweather.com/comets/lulin...gg-Ruppel1.jpg
We had the scopes out at Chittering, WA last night; and although the wind disrupted majority of the nights imaging, I was able to get a few 2min snaps ere and there of a few targets inc. Lulin.
Through the 20mm EP on 8" scope, Lulin stood out very bright.
attached a pic from the night. 2min ISO800(should have used lower ISO)
After imaging Lulin tonight, couldn't resist a bit of visual!
Looked through 12x50 binocs earlier, and saw a slightly off-round, reasonably bright glow. In scope with 21mm EP, it was quite bright and the nucleus was visible as a bright light point. As my eyes became more dark adapted (damned laptop! ) I could make out a faint tail on one side in averted vision. Later, thought I could see tail on both sides, averted vision.
Tried the 8mm eyepiece, and the comet was large with a dim coma – I also made it out at about 12' diameter, based on a roughly 30' FOV. The nucleus was very easily visible, contrasting with the dim coma. No sign of tail at this mag.
Finally, reasonably dark adapted, I tried naked eye – the only nearby bright star was mag 6.65, beyond vision with the less than excellent transparency, and I could see a tiny brightish spot in the comet position. Perfectly satisfied given the geometry that I could see Lulin and that it was easy naked eye.
2009 February 19.75 UT; m1= 5.5; Dia= 12'; DC= 5; 7x50 Binoculars
The comet showed a faint tail to the west, i was able to make it out to 40' (approx 3.5 coma dia's) and was glimpsed with the naked eye from my residence in Armidale.
after weeks of cloud and rain i was eager to see lunin opened the pod quick look at saturn went to align lunin and in come a midnight thunder storm bloody hell closed up pod in discust and went back to bed re awoke at 3.30 bloody perfect skies lunin was visable naked eye a very nice sight no visable tail although threw my binos and view finder maybe something late last year mcnaught 2008 was a really nice sight early evening id put the 2 comets on par with each other for visual viewing
mozzie
Comet Lulin was mag 5.3 this morning the same as 7 Vir with the naked eye. The main tail was about 80' long, almost as bright as the comet to start with, tapering off from 10' wide to narrow and faint. The anti tail was faint and hard to see with a 10" Dob and a 80' field. I observed from altitude 800m.
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.
I had a look at Lulin with 20x80 binocs at 1:45 am this morning (22/2 14:45 UT). The tail is about 2.5 degrees long in pa 110.
I suspect a very faint anti tail 45' long in pa 305. The comet is a naked eye object near beta Vir.
I'm very envious of all who have been able to peep at Lu Lu! Last night should have been excellent viewing for me. Nominally clear skies, no moon, no wind. But bush-fire smoke haze has just destroyed the skies, even at 4:00am.
That's a terrific little animation.
Over what period of time was it taken?
Thanks jjjnettie! The animation was over a period of 70 minutes, from just before midnight EDST (UT+11). Taken with a piggy-backed Canon 400D at 55mm, each of the 10 subs a 3 min exposure at ISO 1600, F/4.5.
Had a great time observing it on Saturday night at Bungowannah near Albury NSW with a group of local people. Watched it all night, from when it first cleared the horizon to when daylight washed it out on Sunday morning. Highlight of our night - easy naked eye, and we used everything from binocs up to an 18" scope to keep an eye on it! Each night it's been getting significantly brighter, but with wall-to-wall clouds at the minute I might miss its brightest!
Have attached a couple of versions of stacks of the images I took last night which clearly show the 'kink' in the ion tail. First is stacked in DSS, comet mode using Median stacking mode to reduce star impact, and second a Registax stack.
Lulin is about mag 5.1 now (3:30 AEDT) , almost as bright as tau in Leo and the diameter is about 18'. The bright tail on the east side is 2 degrees long in pa 110. The very faint tail on the west side is 25' long in pa 300. I looked at it with 20x80 binoculars and a 10" Dobsonian.
) I could make out a faint tail on one side in averted vision. Later, thought I could see tail on both sides, averted vision. 
Keep up the great observations.
