🌕📏 THE MOON AT APOGEE 🗓 29 August 2025 | 21:03 IST Tonight, the Moon reaches its farthest point from Earth — a distance of 406,700 km 🌌 🌀 Its orbit is elliptical, not a perfect circle, causing monthly shifts in distance and apparent size. 📏 Appears slightly smaller in the sky 📐 Angular size: […]
🌠 Aurigid Meteor Shower 2025 📅 Peak Night: 31 Aug – 1 Sep 🕛 Best Time: 03:00 – 05:30 AM IST 📍 Visible from: New Delhi (and across India) ✨ Watch the sky light up as Auriga's fiery trails streak across the eastern horizon! The Aurigid Meteor Shower will reach its peak in the early […]
🌓 MOON AT FIRST QUARTER 🗓 31 August 2025 | 11:55 IST 📍 Visible from New Delhi: 13:02 – 23:00 IST 🌙 The Moon appears half-lit in the evening sky, rising after midday and setting by midnight — a perfect sight for early evening stargazing! 🔄 This phase marks a key moment in the Moon’s […]
🚀☀️ Aditya-L1 Anniversary 📅 Launched: 2 September 2023 🇮🇳 India’s first solar mission — by ISRO 🔭 Studying the Sun from Lagrange Point 1 🌞 Unraveling mysteries of solar winds, flares & corona 🛰️ Carries 7 powerful scientific instruments 🌌 Advancing space weather forecasting for Earth 🔥 A milestone in India’s journey to the heart […]
🌕🚀 Moon at Aphelion 📅 Date: 5 September 2025 🕒 Time: 15:02 IST ✨ The Moon reaches its furthest point from the Sun — 1.0104 AU away! That’s ~380,000 km farther out than Earth, placing the Moon slightly behind Earth from the Sun’s point of view — right around Full Moon phase 🌝 🔭 A […]
🌀 Uranus Goes Retrograde! 📅 Date: 6 September 2025 🕙 Time: 10:47 IST 🔭 The ice giant Uranus begins its retrograde motion, appearing to reverse direction across the night sky — drifting westward instead of east through the stars of Aries ♈ ✨ This celestial illusion, known since ancient times, puzzled early astronomers who couldn’t […]
🌑 Total Lunar Eclipse 2025 📅 Date: 7–8 September 2025 🕓 Time: 21:57 IST – 01:26 IST (Next Day) 📍 Visible Across India 🇮🇳 🌕➡️🌑 Watch as the Full Moon transforms — passing through Earth's shadow and turning a deep reddish hue in a stunning Total Lunar Eclipse! ✨ This celestial event will grace the […]
ime: 01:50 IST 📍 Visible from: New Delhi & across India Witness a celestial meet-up as the Moon (mag -12.7) passes just 3°59′ north of Saturn (mag 0.6) in the early morning sky — a beautiful conjunction in the constellation Pisces ♓ 🔭 Although too wide for a telescope view, the pair will shine close […]
🌠 September ε-Perseid Meteor Shower 📅 Peak Night: 9 September 2025 🕓 Best Viewing: 04:00–05:30 AM IST 📍 Direction: Look East from New Delhi ✨ Get ready for a pre-dawn celestial show as the ε-Perseids light up the night sky! With the radiant in Perseus rising by 20:27 IST, the early morning hours offer the […]
🌕✨ The Moon at Perigee – Closest to Earth! 📅 Date: 10 September 2025 🕔 Time: 17:39 IST 🚀 Tonight, the Moon makes its closest approach to Earth in its orbit — just 356,500 km away! It’s called Perigee, and it makes the Moon appear slightly larger and brighter in the sky 🌕 🌌 The […]
🌕✨🌌 Moon Meets the Pleiades! 📅 Date: 13 September 2025 🕓 Time: 03:40 IST 📍 Visible from: New Delhi & across India ✨ Don’t miss this stunning close approach between the Moon (mag -12.3) and the iconic Pleiades star cluster (M45, mag 1.3) — passing within just 58.4 arcminutes of each other in the early […]
☀️🛰️ Mercury at Superior Conjunction 📅 Date: 13 September 2025 🕓 Time: 16:30 IST 🔭 Mercury has just slipped behind the Sun — reaching superior conjunction, where it lies on the far side of the solar system, in line with the Sun and Earth. 🌌 At this point, Mercury is: ☀️ Just 1°36′ from the […]
