Just like comet Hartley 2, I found this very faint (magnitude 8.3) comet C/2009 P1 Garrad using PRECISE GOTO on my Celestron NexStar 5SE with the exact coordinates of C/2009 P1 Garrad at that time, according to Carinasoft Voyager 4.5 software.
You can see the UTC date and time in this picture. I took a few dozen frames using my Meade DSI II pro ccd camera attached to my Celestron NexStar 5SE telescope. I was standing in front of our house in Zeist, the Netherlands, which is terribly light polluted. Finding a comet of magnitude 8.3 is pushing the limits of what can be seen in this area, so I was glad I could find it quite easily with my NexStar auto two star aligned to Vega and Altair. It was a beautiful night and the moon wasn’t up yet.
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