Podcaster: Shane and Chris
Title: Actual Astronomy: The Observer’s Calendar for January 2025
Organization: Actual Astronomy
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Description: The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents The Observer’s Calendar for January 2025. With Mars at opposition and Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS is eagerly anticipated and we discuss how and where to see it. Venus is at greatest elongation in the evening sky 47-degrees from the Sun and we also talk about pairings of the Moon and Venus, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter and other planets.
Bio: Shane and Chris are amateur astronomers who enjoy teaching astronomy classes and performing outreach where they help the eyes of the public to telescope eyepieces.
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Transcript:
The Observers Calendar for January 2025 on Episode 463 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.
- First – how was your Christmas Shane?
- Did you get any astro goodies?
- My wife bought me the Atlas of Messier Objects – I have the first edition…kind of…I think someone loaned it to me…maybe Mike but he bought the second edition too.
- Lots of info and sketches.
- The best gift was clear skies and first light for the 7-inch refractor but we’ll talk more about that in the next episode
- Meant to mention this when we last recorded. Sad Astronomy News as Antilla Danko, creator of the Clear Sky Chart passed away at the end of November.
- I received a spare 2025 Observer’s Calendar we can give away for Patreon Supporters!
This month is our Observer’s Calendar for January 2025 but I’ve had Marie Newnham working with me on the RASC Observer’s Colander and she came up with a. Variety of new targets I’ll start adding but have never seen for myself.
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
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
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