UPDATE on Comet C/2025 R2 (PANSTARRS)
Comet C/2025 R3 captured from Caufield Australia by Con Stoitsis ©, May 4th.
Comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) has been recovered in the Southern Hemisphere and Australasia by multiple observers. Magnitude seems to be in the order of 5 or so. Although this makes it theoretically dark sky visible to the unaided eye, most observers will find binoculars or a small telescope best.
The comet is now climbing into darker skies and will be visible when the sky is full dark. I have been able to detect it in 10×50 binocular at nautical twilight, so it should remain visible when it gets fully dark for several days, especially as the moon wanes.
Of course this cloud permitting. Which it hasn’t been.
While there has been outstanding images of the comet (see here and here) they are all long exposures, though binoculars it will look like a small fuzzy ball with a stubby tail
I finally got Comet C/2025 R3 after days of rain and cloud. It was still cloudy, but there were gaps that let me catch it in binoculars. Its the fuzzy dot roughly in the centre above the line of three stars. My long exposure got photobombed by clouds so I’m not presenting it. Under difficult conditions with twilight and drifting clouds interfering I estimated maybe magnitude 5.5?
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| Comet C/2025 R3, 4May, 2026 at 18:39 ACST as captured with my Samsung S24, 5x zoom, ISO 3200 and 2 seconds exposure from Largs Bay. The small unprepossessing fuzzy blob roughly in the centre is the comet, compare with the stellarium chart. t the right. Click to embigen | Stellarium chart of the comets position on 4May, 2026 at 18:39 ACST. Nestled between 48 and 57 Eridanus. |
A printable B&W spotters chart and viewing guides are at my comet PANSTARRS page
https://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2026/04/c2025-r3-panstars-how-to-see-it-from.html
Source: http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2026/05/update-on-comet-c2025-r2-panstarrs.html
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