Comet C/2009P1 Garradd: the long view.

The article reports on the discovery of the comet C/2009P1 by astronomer Gordon Garradd in Australia on August 13, 2009. It observes that the comet brightens slowly as it moved through the southern skies, and it continues its northerly track throughout 2010 and emerged from conjunction with the Sun for the second time to become visible in Aquarius. Garradd describes the comet as a tailless object with an approximately circular coma of diameter 15 inches.