Mars at its best! This is what's in the night sky, January 2025
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Pete Lawrence and Paul Abel reveal their pick of the best things to see in the night sky this month, including:
Mars at opposition, Jupiter near Orion, a lunar occultation of Saturn, the Quadrantid meteor shower, the Moon and the Pleiades, and the best deep-sky objects.
Back in the 90's, there was a Mars opposition so spectacular, one could see the ice caps and surface detail in a 4.5" fast reflector.
2nd Jan and I have found mars, at the age of 67 better late than never in the west from Suffolk CSt Mary . Cheers guys
Ah, no wonder you didn't mention the Moon + Mars occultation, the overlap doesn't happen from your vantage point in the UK! You are by far the best resource for what's happening each month, I look forward to every video. Occasionally I'm unable to see some of the Jupiter transits and other "specials" since it's still daytime over here in the US (although that'd certainly be something interesting to try!) or Jupiter's just not up yet, but for the non-time-sensitive things I can just wait a few hours until my side of the planet rotates around. Most of the clair obscur effects, all of which I've found out about through you, I'm able to see over here as well. Thank you for all the research that you do, and consolidating it into such a great resource, and with banter too!
Thanks for these monthly guides chaps. Wishing you and all the team a happy New Year and clear skies for 2025! 😀
Happy new year Peter and Paul clear skies fingers crossed
Fantastic as always! Happy New Year to you all! Thank you for these great videos!
Pretty overcast and wet today and I have a feeling that the Earth will be the only celestial object I'll be seeing on New Year's Eve! But the New Year looms!Try a moon filter on Venus as that dampens its glare and you can sometimes get the phases.Very impressive with Venus and Jupiter shining across the sky at each other as it gets dark at similar latitudes at dusk one in the west and the other in the east.
Last week, I spent 2.5 hours sitting there staring at Mars just waiting for 1 sec perfect seeing. Totally worth it.
Hoping our Jan is better than our 'not seen a thing' December.
Had two fantastic clear nights observing and astrophotography so far this year between the rain. One target to the next last night and not overly cold here in the SW.
I seen Venus on Friday next to thhe crescent moon
Venus was glorious tonight! Looked like someone had put a hole through ink black paper and red was glaring through at me. Everything else in the sky twinkling to some degree except Venus, the angry spot in the sky.
I just am hoping for clear skies on the 4th!!! Otherwise I will be 32 during the next occultation of Saturn ;-; I really hope to see it!!!! And maybe photograph it!!£
You guys are getting all the occultations
My Istar 150mm f8 R35 refractor is all polished and ready to go.
5:07 - I was always taught [as a classical scholar] that this is pronounced as ap-helion not aph-elion. "Peri" means close in greek, "apo" means "away from"...Am I wrong?
Where in the world are these views from, to see these planets? I’m in the UK
New, ignorant but interested. Are we looking NSEW? I'm Nor CA. There's something out there, just wish I knew what. South
It's just not the same when I'm not getting this info from Alyn Wallace
Interesting that most of the stars in the nighttime sky probably don't exist anymore
I do find the sniping of Pete's co host rather unpleasant.
He's just jealous of Pete's awesomeness.
Meanwhile, on Mars, the aliens are peering across the gulf of space towards the blue and white jewel called Earth 🌎 and they are preparing to invade us just like in the film War of the Worlds. Be afraid, be very afraid 😨 😱
Not impressed. You know all the info but how you put it over it is as clear as mud to most of us. And around 5-7 mins, there's lots about Mars, yet the "elephant in the sky'' is a very bright object (brighter than Mars) to the left which gets no mention! - no comment about this other nearby planet (star?) - I presume it's nearby...). Must do better. And we don't all have telescopes.
I am waiting for the Mars hoax again when Mars will look as big as a full moon😆
I don't buy it , a classic case of smart alecs, trying to out impress each other a scouse phrase no likes a smart arxx
on guys ,