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C/2007 N3 (Lulin) Feb 25/09

C/2007 N3 (Lulin) Feb 25/09

The evening of Feb 25 provided me with a small window of opportunity to make another observation and sketch of the inner Solar System interloper.

Naked eye the comet appears the same brightness as when I had observed it a few evenings earlier but through the telescope the tail had elongated by quite a bit. It took using a 2 inch widefield 40mm eyepiece with a 2 degree TFOV in order to take it all in. The pseudo-nucleus remains very bright with a bright central concentration and a faint outer coma that appeared to jut off to the north a bit giving it an asymetrical look. The thin tail streamed off to the south east for a full degree.

I'd estimate the brightness of the comet to be slightly fainter than the star 48 Leo (5.08mag) when defocused to the same size as the head of the comet.

This is how I saw things using my f/8 6 inch dob at 30X