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The Observer’s Calendar for March 2025 on Episode 472 of the Actual Astronomy podcast. I’m Chris and joining me is Shane. We are amateur astronomers who love looking up at the night sky and this podcast is for everyone who enjoys going out under the stars. March 4 th is Pancake Tuesday March 5 –Continue reading “Episode 472 – Observer’s Calendar For March 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 –Continue reading “Episode 463 – Observer’s Calendar January 2025 Show Notes”

Dec 1 Sunday  – New Moon Asteroid  13 Egeria at opposition m=9.9 Dec 4 Wed. – Early evening Venus 2-degrees above Moon –   Late evening Mars just over 2-degrees from M44 Dec 6th Friday – Moment of Global Darkness occurs when 85% of the global population experience night simultaneously.  According to Date & time .comContinue reading “Episode 458 – Observer’s Calendar for December 2024”

C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)  – Will fade from the naked eye view. Mag 6.3 at start of month and 9.3 by end of month.

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas – 

Double Cluster – an observing session doesn’t feel complete without a view of the double cluster. This is a set of clusters physically located together in space, they are bright and known since antiquity where Hipparchus catalogued it and Ptolemy, writing in his Almagest, noted them as a Little Cloud or Misty spot. The DoubleContinue reading “Episode 444 – Focusing on Perseus Show Notes”

4th Mercury Stationary 5th Venus 1.7 below Moon this evening 6th 7 Iris at opposition (m=8.1) Iris was discovered on August 13, 1847, by J. R. Hind from London, UK. It was Hind’s first asteroid discovery and the seventh asteroid to be discovered overall. It was named after the rainbow goddess Iris in Greek mythology,Continue reading “Episode 442 – Observer’s Calendar for August 2024”

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. First asteroid, discovered on 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi in Sicily, and first thought to be a new planet. Ceres was later classified as an asteroid and then a dwarf planet, the only one inside Neptune’sContinue reading “Episode 438 – Observer’s Calendar for July 2024 Show Notes”