C/2009 P1 (Garradd)

New Guest on the Sky

C/2009 P1 (Garradd)
C/2009 P1 (Garradd)

Location: Budy Dłutowskie – small village in central Poland
Date: 05.08.2011
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, color invert
Telescope: Columbus 13” (320/1387 Newtonian telescope) + Antares Speers Waler I 14mm
Seeing: 2/5
Transparency: 1/5
NELM: 6 mag

Hello

New guest on our sky – comet C/2009 P1 Garradd. She will stay with us in next months. Now we can observe this object in Pegasus constellation (near to M15). Quite bright head with wide weak tail (8-8,5mag). In next month brightness of this comet will be constantly grow.

Clear sky
Łukasz

One thought on “New Guest on the Sky”

  1. Lukasz,

    Very nice that you are picking up some of the tail.
    This one is worth a good look.

    Frank

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