Episode 463 – Observer’s Calendar January 2025 Show Notes

Jan 1 – Happy New Year

Jan 3- Venus 1.4 degrees N of Moon

Quandrantid Meteors Peak ZHR 60 to 200

Jan 4 – Saturn 0.7 S of Moon – Occultation for very southern US and South America

Jan 5- Neptune 1.1 S of Moon – Occultation for Central and North EU

Jan 6 – first Quarter Moon and Walthier Sunrise Ray visible on Moon

Jan 7 – Lunar Straight Wall visible and Eyes of Clavius on the Moon

Jan 8/9 – Uranus 4-degrees S of Moon

Jewelled handle visible on the Moon

Jan 10 – Moon in Pleiades and Jupiter 5-degrees S of Moon

Venus at Greatest Elongation 47-degrees from Sun in Evening Sky

Jan 11 Wargentin Pancake visible on Moon

Jan 12 – Mars at Closest Approach

Carbon star T Cnc best tonight

Comet C/2024 G3 Atlas visible this morning – 0 Magnitude

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) Kicks off the New Year — What to Expect

Jan 13 Full Moon – Mars 0.2 degrees S of Moon – Occultation for NA 9pm EST

Jan 14 – Follow Arcturus into the daytime sky

Jan 15 – Mars at Opposition

Jan 17 Saturn and Venus 3 degrees apart

Jan 19 – M79 Well placed tonight

Venus 3-degrees N of Saturn

Jan. 21 – Last Quarter Moon

Jan 25 – Antares pairs with Moon – Occultation for NZ and Australia

Mare Orientale visible on Moon

Jan 27th – Winter Star Part begins

Jan 29th – New Moon

Jan 30 – Carbon Star RY Mon well placed tonight

Jan 31 Saturn 1.1-degrees South of Moon