Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) & The Eagle Nebula: View from Chile

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) & The Eagle Nebula: View from Chile

Astrophotgrapher Daniele Gasparri: "From the Southern Hemisphere, Comet Lemmon is (still) out of sight, but another, almost forgotten comet is currently crossing the Milky Way. C/2025 R2 (SWAN) is even visible to the naked eye under the pristine skies of the Atacama Desert, and I captured it while it was (apparently) passing through one of the most iconic and spectacular regions of the sky—the Eagle Nebula. This image was taken with a 130 mm Newtonian reflector, averaging 40 exposures of 120 seconds each, aligned both on the comet and the stars. It was also an amazing sight through the eyepiece with its characteristic green coma drifting across one of the most observed nebulae in the sky."

Image Credit: Daniele Gasparri
Daniele's website: https://www.danielegasparri.com
Capture Location: Atacama region of Chile
Image Date: Oct. 17, 2025

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