About 6:15 this morning (Friday the 13th) I took my Galileo 15X70 binoculars out side to see if I could find Lulin.  To my disappointment there was a pretty bright moon out but I could still find Spica in Virgo.  My Galileo’s have about a 4 degree field of view (FOV) and my planetarium software said that Lulin was about 12 degrees from spica in the direction of Kappa Virginis but slightly lower.   I found what I believe is Hip 67271 a star with spectrum k3 that appeared orange to me. I expected that Lulin was going to be in the same FOV, and it wasn’t readily apparent.  I almost missed it. Lulin was just on the verge of seeing.  I didn’t need averted vision but then again it was so faint that I had to jiggle the binos around to make sure my mind wasn’t making it up.  With the moon at about 16.5 degrees away didn’t help any.   The moon will move farther east and tomorrow night (morning) won’t be any better. Tomorrow morning the moon will be about 6.5 degrees away with a lower declination.   Better wait 3 or 4 more days and pray for the cloud gods to take a vacation in the Sahara.  Jim