The comet was first photographed by astronomer Lin Chi-Sheng with a 16″ telescope at the Lulin Observatory in Nantou, Taiwan on July 11, 2007. 19-year-old Ye Quanzhi from Sun Yat-sen University in China identified the new object from three of the photographs taken by Lin. 3.
Image by Martin Crow
Contour image of the Lulin’s Coma
(c) Martin Crow
2009-02-27
14 x 30s exposure
Spectra of Comet Lulin by Martin Crow
640×480 Image, by Simon Dawes on 2009-02-27, 20 x 20s exposure