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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

2026 March 9, 1229UT

Equipment:

50mm f/5 Refractor and IMX462 camera

Description:

Comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) continues to get a little higher each morning just before twilight. The comet is brightening nicely as it moves towards Perihelion in its orbit on April 19 and a close approach to Earth on April 26 when it may be a naked eye comet. In these images the comet was magnitude 10.1 with a coma 2.4 arc minutes wide, the comet was at an altitude of 7 degrees just as twilight started to dawn.