Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN)
Taken by Mieczyslaw Leszek Paradowski on October 20, 2025 @ Pryszczowa Góra, Poland
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Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) on 2025 October 20 at 18:38 UT (center), Pryszczowa Góra, Poland, Bortle 4.6 Telescope: Orestegor f=300mm/4 @f/5.6 Camera: Canon 6D 1600 ISO exposure 10x15s Tracker mount: Star Adventurer. Comet alt. 15d51' Aperture photometry performed in IRIS- written by Christian Buil. Total comet magnitude mC=5.2 +/-0.1 mag, magnitude in V band mV=5.8 +/-0.1 mag @Dia=12.0', effective diameter of the comet's nucleus is 2.27 +/-0.55 km assuming phase coefficient 0.030+/-0.005 mag/deg and albedo 0.04 Delta=0.2615 au, r=0.9836 au, Elong.: 80deg Phase: 85.05deg FOV 77' x 77' Res 4.5"/pixel; Scale: 854.03 km/pixel All frames were calibrated (darks, bias, flats) and stacked on the comet. Processing: DeepSkyStacker, IRIS -written by Christian Buil, GIMP Details on the photos. I determined the effective diameter of the comet's nucleus using my method that was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 492, Issue 3, March 2020 Pages 4175-4188, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3597
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