Photographing Comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) in Orion – 9 May 2026

I had another attempt at photographing the Comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) as it passed through Orion. I used the same setup I had used a few days before, but results were not very good – due to bushfire smoke as well as light pollution.

In the photo above, the comet is in the lower left (green colour), with no tail visible. The Nebula in  Orion is on the top right.

The photos below shows the comet between Rigel (bottom left) and the Orion Nebula (Top right)

And cropping in to the comet –

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