C/2008N3 (Lulin) 2009-Mar-03 Jim Melka

Comet Lulin's green coma & red dust tail & bright nucleus - from Chesterfield, MO by Jim Melka. At a distance of 0.5AU to Earth, the diameter of false nucleus is 4625 miles and coma is 154k miles across. 30cm Newtonian at parcorr focus f/4.2 & Canon 20d(Baader IR) ISO 800 on custom GEM mount 120 30-sec RAW frms began at 03:30 UT on Mar. 03, 2009, processed with Images Plus 2.80