Wow, just three posts into this blog and I use a pun. A horrible, horrible pun. Let me distract you from that with a picture!
You’ll recognize this as the constellation Leo (or maybe not; I wouldn’t have until about a week ago), with Saturn hanging out just below. What you probably won’t recognize is Comet Lulin. Let me help out by zooming in and fiddling with the contrast a bit.
There’s Lulin. I think. I was able to track that very faint, fuzzy object along the comet’s projected path over three nights, so I’m pretty sure. Sadly, the view in my telescope only resolved a slightly brighter fuzzy dot without a tail or even a hint of the brilliant green color. So while I did end up spotting Lulin, it was nowhere near the sight it could have been thanks to light-pollution. I need to pick up and head out of the city.
