Saturday, August 27, 2011
Comet C/20009 P1 Garrad August 25 (Near M71)

The comet is pretty close to the cluster tonight, so if you have a small telescope go have a look. A chart showing C/2009 P1's location is here.
Image taken with the Global-Rent-a-Scope G-14 instrument, 3 x 120 sec luminance exposures stretched with FITS liberator and stacked in Image J.
Labels: astrophotography, comet, Global Rent-a-Scope