C/2009 P1 Garrardd

[bkm2304]

Comet Garrardd was looking very large and bright this morning. 22" Newtonian, SBIG STL 11000, 60 secs.

Richard

[lepton3]

Richard,

Nice image, really does look big and bright. Thanks for sharing.

I still haven't got up the motivation to get out there early in the morning for this one (it is behind my neighbour's tree until about 3am for me).

-Ivan

[iceman]

Nice image Richard. Is it naked eye?

You might consider resizing the image before uploading, because I had trouble scrolling around to find the comet :) It will also mean less compression is necessary.

[Ross G]

Hi Richard,

Extreme capture...very nice.


Ross.

[anthony.tony]

Nice shot

[cookie8]

I finally saw this little beauty through my humble 3.5" WO Megrez last night in my suburban backyard. It took me a while to find because it was so dim. I was looking for a fuzzy star with a bright nucleus but I was wrong. It was just a smudge and hardly any coma seen. At 50X the smudge appeared to be elongated along N/S plane.
Happy to have found it:)
P.S. No Mike it can't be naked eye even under dark sky. Around mag8 or 9 at the moment.