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Comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) is now getting out of the atmospheric haze in the morning twilight which has helped get a little definition to the comet. On the morning of 2026 March 3 had the added benefit of a partial Lunar Eclipse still in progress to almost take the Moon brightness out of the images. The comet was at an average altitude of 5.4 degrees for these images which showed a comet coma of 2 arc minutes and a calculated magnitude of 10.7 with the center of the comet now well defined. Jean-Francois Soulier has a nice image of the comet and good data from March 4 in my previous topic on the comet. The comet should now be getting visible to everyone in the Northern Hemisphere.