C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 31301)
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Apr 09 03h48 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 5.9 Aperture radius used for m1 2.5 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 8.2 Aperture radius used for m2 8.2 " Coma diameter 4.5 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 6 Tail length 0.55 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 291 ° Afrho 3300 cm Afrho error 100 cm r (dist/Sun) 0.562 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.961 AU Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument Dobson T256mm Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 256 mm Instrument focale length 1269 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.95 Filter(s) None Camera Sony alpha7s Sensor DC Sensor size 36x24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240x2832 Sensor temperature 13 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson Motorization No Autoguide No Exposure total time 43 s Exposure details 94x1/5 + 97x1/4 s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 4 Seeing 3 Moon phase 79 ° Moon elongation 80 ° Air mass 3.9 Location Versailles Reference stars catalog APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.75 "/pix Image processing binning flat alignement sommes alignement comète somme retrait gradient Remarks or comments Afrho couche R RAW Observation submission date 2026 Apr 10 15h43m42s Observation modification date 2026 Apr 10 15h45m21s