Just got back in from viewing Comet Lulin (C/2007 N3), and while it wasn't a Hale-Bopp or Hyakutake, it was a thrill to see, anyway. I was able to spot it with no trouble just to the west of Saturn using some cheap Wal-Mart 10 X 50 binoculars and was even able to notice some movement over a period of about 30 minutes. Due to its backwards orbit, this comet is screaming by Earth (almost 5 deg. per day) and even short observing sessions should reveal motion.

I attempted to take some tripod photos with my Canon A520 point & shoot digital, but it has a maximum exposure length of 15 seconds, which just wasn't long enough to pick up any dim fuzzies. See that big, black square off to the right? That's what I got. Click on it to see a bigger version, and you can clearly see Saturn about a third of the way from the left, halfway up. Just a little above that, the right triangle that marks Leo's "haunches" can be seen. If anyone can pick out a comet in that shot, you win a cookie!

[Update: NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day is featuring a fantastic shot of Lulin today.]

I was, however, able to get some interesting pictures of some of the wind turbine farm I was sitting in the middle of. All I can say about that is that those things just sound angry when your sitting right underneath one in a 25mph wind. I was literally sitting right below the spinning blades of one, and the only thing that kept going through me mind was the video that I saw a while ago of one exploding when its braking mechanism failed.

[Edit: I didn't even notice that the photo of the wind turbine caught the Pleides up towards the top. Neat!]

Also, I saw some interesting light play on the spinning blades from the aircraft warning lights on top of the towers. I may have to go back out there some night when it's much warmer and do some experimentation photographs.