Comet Lovejoy is just on the edge of naked eye visibility from my backyard vantage point. With averted vision, I can make out a small smudge in the right location in the sky, but cannot see it when trying to look directly at it. I managed to capture it with my digital camera, where it appeared as a small green fly buzzing around the flank of Taurus.
Through my telescope at low power, it looked spectacular. It appeared distinctly greenish, and had a not-quite-stellar nucleus. The coma formed an almost perfectly round haze around the comet, giving it a similar appearance to a globular cluster or a planetary nebula.