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Dec 3rd/4th – Moon 0.8-degrees N of Pleiades Carbon Star U Lyr best tonight Dec 4th – Full Moon in Taurus Dec 7th – Jupiter 4-degrees South of Moon Mercury Greatest Elongation 21-degrees from Sun in morning Sky Endymion sunset rays visible on Moon Dec ⅞ Moon and M44 Dec 8th – 16 Psyche atContinue reading “Episode 512 – The Observer’s Calendar for December 2025 Show Notes”

Comet C2025 R2 SWAN  C/2025 A6 Lemmon

The comet was discovered by Carl Clarence Kiess at Lick Observatory on a photographic plate obtained in the morning hours of 6 July 1911 with the Crocker photographic telescope. The comet appeared as a distorted nebulous object with a short tail. The presence of the comet was confirmed visually the next day. The comet hadContinue reading “Episode 498 – Observer’s Calendar for September 2025 Show Notes”

Aug 1 – Carbon Star V Cyg at it’s best Aug 2 – Lunar Straight Wall and Eyes of Clavius Aug 3 – Antares 0.6 N. Of Moon Ausonia at opposition m=9.3 Aug 6 – Wargetin Pancake visible on Moon Aug 9 – Full Moon – NGC 6723 well placed Aug 10 – Jupiter andContinue reading “Episode 493 – Observer’s Calendar for August 2025”

MERCURY Very low in WNW in evening twilight, lost after mid-month VENUS In ENE morning twilight all month MARS Very low in W, sets before 12 am JUPITER Rises after 4 am in ENE, E at dawn SATURN Rises in E before 1 am, high in S at dawn July 1 – Canada Day! JULYContinue reading “Episode 489 – Observer’s Calendar for July 2025”

June 1 – Venus at greatest elongation in morning sky 46-degrees from Sun. Mars is still 30-degrees up but just over 5 arc seconds when the month begins. June 3rd – first quarter Moon June 4th – Lunar Straight Wall Visible this evening June 5th – Eye of Clavius visible on Moon June 6th –Continue reading “Episode 485 – Observer’s Calendar for June 2025 Show Notes”

May 1 Morning  May Comet C2025 F2 SWAN? Passes Pleiades on May 1 & 2 But only 1-2 degrees up in a dark sky for us…likely visibility is going to be a challenge…much fainter than Tsuchen Atlas was back in October, that comet was Mag. 2 and could be tough to see 10-12 degree higher…Continue reading “Episode 480 – The Observer’s Calendar for May 2025 Show Notes”

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*M41: bright, magnitude 4.5, pinpoint stars in the Plossl eyepiece.  A great place to start, and some say, to end on a positive note. The only object viewed with the Plossl eyepiece. Cr121 is a mag 2.6 cluster 60 arcmin diameter.  There were about 2 dozen stars distinguishable in a loose structure characterized by 2Continue reading “Episode 473 – Sirius Observing in Canis Major Show Notes”