You should be able to see Comet Lulin with the naked eye on a dark night in February.  Comets are notoriously unpredictable with some, like Comet Holmes and Comet McNaught in 2008, brightening without warning.   Perhaps Comet Lulin will have a surprise in store for us also. 

To find Comet Lulin, locate Spica in the wee hours of the mornings of February  15 –17 and you should find Lulin above Spica by 3° - well within a binocular field of view..  On February 24 Lulin will be directly below Saturn.  On February 27 it will be directly below Regulus.