What's Up in the January 2025 Skies?

Happy New Year!!! Hopefully you had a joyous holiday season filled with lots of clear skies! In this episode, we’ll discuss the planets, a meteor shower, a comet, then we’ll explore what is considered the brightest feature on the moon, before taking a sneak peek at some great astronomical events that will be happening in 2025. If you enjoy the episode, please subscribe, comment, and share, and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. Carpe Noctem! Links: Feel free to buy us a cup of coffee or two! We really appreciate it! https://tinyurl.com/AstroGuyCoffeeOur Facebook group page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/astroguypod Cranford TV-35: https://www.cranfordnj.org/tv-35 Clark TV-36: https://www.ourclark.com/194/Clark-News---Our-Clark-Media The Full Episode Guide of DSO’s sorted by Catalog Name: http://tinyurl.com/AGFullGuide To learn more about degrees, arcminutes, arcseconds, magnitude and more, check out our Astronomy Basics episode: https://youtu.be/MtUkLVneNYs?si=5Ge1Zq7V3q6lB92s March 13-14 Mars Occultation: https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20250114_16_100 Blue Ghost CLIPs Mission info: https://fireflyspace.com/blue-ghost/ SPHEREx info: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/spherex/ Europa Clipper info: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/ March 14th Lunar Eclipes Maps and Timings: https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20250314_09_100 March 29th Partial Solar Eclipse info: https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20250329_09_100 Asteroid Day info: https://asteroidday.org/ JUpiter ICy Moons Explorer info: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice JUNO info: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/juno/ September 7th Lunar Eclipse info: https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20250907_09_100 September 21st Partial Solar Eclipse info: https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20250921_09_100 Affiliate Links High Point Scientific: https://www.highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=7714880.bb6129 Amazon: https://amzn.to/4gFQmOG Binoculars: https://amzn.to/3ZRGfyu Binocular Mount: https://amzn.to/3ZGyU4I