March 2025 says goodbye to Saturn, welcomes a total lunar eclipse, and continues hanging out with the rest of the planets

March 2025 says goodbye to Saturn, welcomes a total lunar eclipse, and continues hanging out with the rest of the planets
Today’s Actual Astronomy discuss about the faintest thing you can see with naked eye including Milky Way, Moon, Planets, Comets & more.
January 2025 is a PLANETARY month! Mars gets big, Mars gets occulted, Mars gets outshined by Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter, then Venus and Saturn pass right by each other, and a brief but intense meteor shower shows up.
The Observer’s Calendar for November talk about t Corona Borealis to Nova to the Halloween Fireballs, also pairings of the Moon & Venus, Jupiter, & other planets.
The inner solar system was a wild and wooly place and the collisions that formed Earth and Venus were likely of the hit-and-run variety
July’s fireworks include Saturn coming back around closer to being an evening planet, Mercury and Venus dancing low in the evenings, and some magic between the Moon and Spica.
Today’s Actual Astronomy discuss about Observer’s Calendar for February 2024. We have Moon pairing with Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter as well as a couple comets visible in small telescopes.