The Liverpool Astronomical Society

Comet C/2009 P1 Garradd is well placed in the sky for medium to large telescopes

at the moment, it is a slow moving comet so it will be in the skies for some time yet,

it is also expected to brighten from its current 8th mag to possible 6th mag,

to find its location you can follow it on this website

http://www.heavens-above.com/comet.aspx?cid=C%2F2009%20P1&lat=53.416&lng=-2.940&loc=Liverpool&alt=10&tz=GMT 

so lets hope for plenty of clear skies in the months ahead.

Image of Comet Garrad taken 03/08/2011 with a 10" f1.5 telescope used for our

supernova searches

This Image was taken 17/08/2011 and is a stacked image 5 x 45sec

You can also see a short animation of the comet taken the same night here 

Below is an image by Daniel Kenealy as the comet came close to M71 

Imaged with a William Optics 66mm Zenithstar f6, 5 x 45 secs stacked