Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Comet C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS published in Magazine Heelal

My observation of Comet C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS is published in magazine Heelal of June 2026.

"Perhaps the observer who was the last to record PANSTARRS from our region was Pascal Hilkens. On Sunday morning, April 19, he set his alarm for 04:30 AM local time “to then go by bicycle to the hinterland in search of a dark sky. At a distance of 5 km from Nieuwpoort-aan-Zee, I found a nice location with a full view of the east. There were still some light domes and the horizon had some high cloud cover. From 5:25 AM to 5:55 AM, I took several photos with my Nikon D7500 with a Nikkor 18-200 mm lens, but visually I could not observe the comet.”

Very cool to have my observation published. My images could not be published as the details were to small.