Look, it's Comet Lulin!

According to astrologists, tonight, Monday, February 23, in a moonless sky and near its peak brightness, Comet Lulin passes 2° south-southwest of Saturn. Of course those with telescopes will see it best (Rick and Sue, is yours ready?), but I heard on WHO Radio yesterday morning that here in Iowa, we will be able to see it with the naked eye, (binoculars would be even better) as a light green small streak at 9:43 PM. I'm going to be out there looking!! We're lucky to have pretty dark skies out here in the country.
This from a some websites:
Over the next three nights, sky watchers should expect their best views yet of Comet Lulin. It makes its closest approach to Earth — some 38 million miles away — on Tuesday, Feb. 24. To the naked eye, the comet looks like a fuzzy patch of hazy light against the night sky. Use binoculars or telescopes, and you’ll be able to pick out its brighter center, along with its dual tail — a brighter tail of dust, and a dimmer one of ionized gases the comet sheds as its sun-warmed ices change directly from a solid to a gas.Some serious comet-watching
Dr. Dello Russo, with the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., has snagged some telescope time on one of the Keck Observatory’s two 10-meter telescopes on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea. He and an international team are watching emissions from Lulin, as well as those from comet 22P/Kopff. (Hey Kim, think they’d let you take the kids for a field trip? :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ-1kea5L1s

YouTube video of astronomers’s pics and info about Lulin. 2 min.

Hope you get to see it!!