Stargazer alert! Green Comet Lulin is high in the sky!

Dear stargazing instructable-ers, Comets are awesome. What COULD be more awesome than giant chunks of ice, rock, dirt, and potential poison flying through space? Well, very few things to say the least. Comets are best known for thier "tails", or comas. The color of the coma is determined by the usually volatile gasses and particles encased within the "dirty snowball" of ice known as the nucleus. The comet creates an atmosphere around it 's nucleus leaves a trail of gases and particles that is illuminated by light from the sun. This creates a dazziling effect that has been the subject of much marvel and spirituality through out the ages. Tonight, (or any day within this week, although today is the best), Stargazers have a chance to see Comet Lulin, a comet discovered in 2007 by Ye Quanzhi and Lin Chi-Sheng from Taiwan's Lulin Observatory. It is a bright, green comet that exhibits a phenomenon that makes it appear to have an "anti-tail"; the comet seems to have two tails facing in opposite directions. This is an optical illusion however, and only one tail is real. The green coloring comes from carbon and cyanogen: gasses frozen into the nucleus. So, if you can, whip out your telescopes and watch the night sky. You can apparently see it just with the naked eye, but I'm sure binoculars help! Look south-west near Saturn, and it will be a green speck floating around near "Leo". It should appear around 10:45 EST. Check it out!