🌘☀️ Partial Solar Eclipse
📅 21–22 Sept 2025
🕓 23:01 IST – 03:23 IST
🌍 Visible from: Antarctica & parts of Oceania
🌞 Max coverage: Up to 79% of the Sun’s disk
🔭 No total eclipse this time — the Sun and Moon won’t perfectly align anywhere on Earth. Still, skywatchers in the southern hemisphere will witness a spectacular bite taken out of the Sun!
❌ Not visible from India
🪐✨ Saturn at Opposition
📅 21 Sept 2025 | 🕚 11:07 IST
📍 Visible from New Delhi: 19:16 – 05:20 IST
🌌 Saturn shines at its brightest & biggest tonight!
Opposite the Sun and rising at sunset, this ringed giant stays visible all night in the constellation Pisces ♓
🔭 Best Viewing:
🕖 Rises: 19:16 (East)
🔝 Peaks: 00:18 — 58° high in southern sky
🌅 Sets: 05:20 (West)
✨ A perfect night to view Saturn’s rings — binoculars recommended, telescope ideal!
🌙💫 Lunar Occultation of Venus
📅 19 Sept 2025 | ⏱ 16:04 – 19:56 IST
✨ The Moon will pass in front of Venus, creating a stunning lunar occultation — where Venus briefly disappears behind the Moon!
🌍 Visible from:
Africa, Europe, Western Russia, Canada, Greenland & parts of Asia
❌ Not visible from India (New Delhi)
🔭 For the rest of the world, a beautiful close conjunction will still be visible — with Venus glowing next to the crescent Moon in the constellation Leo ♌
💡 A must-watch for skywatchers in the visible zones — especially with binoculars or a small telescope!
🌙💫 Moon–Venus Conjunction
📅 19 Sept 2025 | 🕓 Conjunction: 17:16 IST
📍 Visible: 04:05 – 05:50 IST | New Delhi
✨ The slim crescent Moon (27 days old) and dazzling Venus (mag -3.9) rise together in the pre-dawn sky 🌅
🌓 Separated by just 48 arcminutes — a beautiful appulse in Leo ♌
🔭 Too wide for a telescope, but a gorgeous naked-eye or binocular view!
🌌 Catch them glowing low in the eastern sky, climbing to 22° before sunrise.
🌙🪐 Moon–Jupiter Conjunction
📅 16 Sept 2025 | 🕓 16:35 IST
📍 Visible from: 01:13 – 05:49 IST | New Delhi
✨ A stunning pre-dawn pairing!
🌕 The 24-day-old Moon passes just 4°33′ north of brilliant Jupiter
🔭 Too wide for telescope, but perfect for naked eye or binoculars
♊ Both shine in the constellation Gemini
🌅 Look east before sunrise — catch this celestial duo lighting up the sky!
🌕✨ 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!
