Comet 2009P1 Garradd on May 12, 2012


Date & Time: May 12 2012, from 20:48 to 20:58 JST(+0900)
Composed 4 shots with 3 minutes exposed
Optical: TAKAHASHI 16cm(6.3") epsilon (f=530mm, F3.3)
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Digital Camera: Canon EOS 550D (Remodeled)
Location: Hitachi-oota city, Ibaraki pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(5184×3456)
CCD Sensitivity...ISO1600


The comet Garradd in that day has been positioned at northern edge of Cancer, about 4 degrees north of iota Cnc. The coma looks smaller than that of previous observation with a brightness of about 9th magnitude. You can detect a dust tail stretched in north direction, the ion tail cannot be detected. And a small galaxy at about 40 arc minutes northeast of the comet is NGC2683 in Lynx.



Spectrum of Garradd on early morning of Jan 28, 2012
Garradd on Mar 24, 2012

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