Many people interested in astronomy are watching the progress of comet C/2025 R3 as it moves through its closest approach to the Sun. Follow this link to see an interactive orbit diagram.

I was awake this morning at 4:30 and looked out the window to see that the sky was clear. I knew that the comet was currently low in the eastern sky before twilight. This chart places it within the Great Square of Pegasus. I set my 15X binoculars on a support and scanned that part of the sky. There was a small fuzzy ball of light.

I placed my camera on a tripod and adjusted the settings for ISO 3200 and 1 sec with a medium zoom. Once located and centered I increased the zoom and checked focus. Here is the result. The greenish object in the center has a very faint tail pointing toward the 1 o’clock direction. The Sun was well below the horizon in the 7 o’clock direction from the comet.

You can see many other photos submitted by others with better seeing conditions and equipment than mine. Go to this page on Spaceweather.

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