Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) after perihelion: an honest field report from 35°N
Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) passed perihelion on April 19, 2026 at 0.499 AU from the Sun, then made its closest pass of Earth on April 26 at 0.489 AU (about 73 million km). For a few days around peak it pulled to roughly magnitude +3 to +5, depending on whose visual estimate you trust on the COBS database. Bright enough to spot in dark-sky binoculars, faint enough that nobody from the Northern Mediterranean was going to call it a naked-eye showpiece. ...