🌕✨ Lunar Occultation of Beta Tauri
📅 14 Sept 2025
🕓 15:43 – 19:59 IST
🌙 The Moon will pass in front of Beta Tauri (Elnath) — a rare occultation event!
🔭 Visible from: U.S., Mexico, French Polynesia, NW Kiribati
❌ Not visible from India
💫 For the rest of the world: a close conjunction between the Moon & Elnath will still be visible — a stunning celestial pairing in Taurus ♉
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🌗 Last Quarter Moon
📅 14 Sept 2025 | 🕓 16:03 IST
📍 Visible from: 22:57 to 13:21 IST (New Delhi)
✨ Half-lit Moon rising at midnight
🌌 Best seen in pre-dawn sky
🔁 Nearing the end of its monthly cycle
📆 Phase repeats every 29.5 days
🔭 Wake up early, look up — it’s lunar symmetry at its best!
☀️🛰️ 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 Sun — completely hidden in the Sun’s glare
🌍 1.38 AU away from Earth — at its most distant (apogee)
📉 Unobservable for the next few weeks
✨ This marks the end of Mercury’s morning apparition and begins its slow shift to the evening sky.
📸 A cosmic reset — next stop: Mercury as a glowing evening star!
🌕✨🌌 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 morning sky!
🔭 Although just slightly too far apart for a telescope view, this pairing will be a gorgeous sight to the naked eye or binoculars, glowing together in the constellation Taurus ♉
🌌 Viewing Guide:
🕙 Rises: 22:46 IST (East)
🔝 Peaks: 04:39 AM – 85° overhead
🌅 Fades: ~05:26 AM (West)
💫 A serene moment of lunar light brushing past the Seven Sisters — pure celestial poetry!
🌕✨ 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’s orbit isn’t a perfect circle — it’s an ellipse, causing its distance from Earth to vary each month by nearly 50,000 km!
🔭 At perigee:
📏 Distance: 356,500 km
📐 Angular Size: 33.5 arcmin (vs. 29.4 at apogee)
💡 Appears ~14% larger and brighter!
✨ Look up tonight — you may just notice the “super-sized” Moon rising with extra charm!
🌠 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 clearest burst of meteors streaking downward from high above.
🔭 Why it’s special:
As Earth rotates, New Delhi turns directly into the meteor stream — meaning short, bright trails near the radiant and long, slow-burning meteors crossing wide arcs earlier in the night.
🌌 Best time to catch the magic? Just before sunrise, around 04:00 IST, when Perseus is highest in the sky.
🛏️ Sleep early, wake early — the sky will reward you!
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 enough to be admired with the naked eye or binoculars under clear skies!
🌌 Viewing Window:
🕗 Visible from: ~20:06 IST (East)
🔭 Highest Point: 01:09 AM — 58° above southern sky
🌅 Fades by: ~05:31 AM (West)
💫 At the same time, they also make a close approach (called an appulse) — a moment of visual closeness that adds to the cosmic charm.
🌑 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 skies for over 3.5 hours, with totality at its dramatic peak in the late evening hours.
🔭 No equipment needed — just find a dark, open sky and look up to witness nature’s most awe-inspiring lunar show.
🔥 Fun Fact: The eclipse begins just before the Full “Corn Moon” reaches its peak brightness — making this lunar spectacle even more magical.
🌀 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 explain it within the old geocentric model.
🌍 Why it happens:
As Earth races ahead in its orbit, our shifting vantage point makes distant planets like Uranus appear to backtrack temporarily.
🌌 A cosmic dance of motion and perspective — beautiful, predictable, and profoundly humbling.
🌕🚀 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 perfect time to reflect on cosmic distances — the Moon, Earth, and Sun aligning across millions of kilometers in a delicate celestial dance.
🌌 Did You Know?
At this moment:
☀️ Moon–Sun: 1.0104 AU
🌍 Earth–Sun: 1.0082 AU
🌕 Earth–Moon: 0.0025 AU (~3.8 lakh km)
