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  Sky Calendar -- February 2025
1 Moon near Saturn at 5h UT (evening sky). Mag. 1.2. Take the opportunity to view Saturn and its almost edge-on rings before it disappears into the evening twilight at the end of the month.
Saturn (Wikipedia)
1 Moon near Venus at 23h UT (evening sky). Mag. −4.6.
Venus (Wikipedia)
2 Moon at perigee (closest to Earth) at 2:40 UT (distance 367,457km; angular size 32.5').
5 First Quarter Moon at 8:03 UT.
6 Moon near the Pleiades at 8h UT (evening sky).
The Pleiades (Wikipedia)
7 Moon near Jupiter at 3h UT (evening sky). Mag. −2.5.
Jupiter (Wikipedia)
8 Moon near M35 star cluster at 16h UT (evening sky).
Messier 35 (Wikipedia)
9 Mercury at superior conjunction with the Sun at 12h UT (not visible). The innermost planet passes into the evening sky.
9 Moon near Mars at 18h UT (evening sky). Mag. −0.8. Occultation visible from parts of Russia, China, eastern Canada and Greenland.
Mars (Wikipedia)
10 Moon near Castor at 0h UT (evening sky).
10 Moon near Pollux at 6h UT (evening sky).
10 Mars at northernmost declination (26.2°) at 16h UT (evening sky).
11 Moon near Beehive cluster M44 at 8h UT (evening sky).
Beehive Cluster (Wikipedia)
12 Full Moon at 13:53 UT.
13 Moon near Regulus at 3h UT (midnight sky).
Regulus (Wikipedia)
14 Venus shows greatest illuminated extent (334 square arc seconds) at 22h UT.
16 Venus at its brightest at 9h UT (39.7° from Sun, evening sky). Mag. −4.63.
17 Moon near Spica at 13h UT (morning sky).
Spica (Wikipedia)
18 Moon at apogee (farthest from Earth) at 1h UT (distance 404,882km; angular size 29.5').
20 Last Quarter Moon at 17:33 UT.
21 Moon near Antares at 10h UT (83° from Sun, morning sky).
Antares (Wikipedia)
28 New Moon at 00:46 UT. Start of lunation 1264.
All times Universal Time (UT).
  • US Eastern Standard Time = UT − 5 hours.
  • US Pacific Standard Time = UT − 8 hours.
  • Australian Eastern Daylight Time = UT + 11 hours
  • Singapore Standard Time = UT + 8 hours.

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