February 2025 Sky
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February 2025 Sky
| 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. |
February 2025 Sky All times Universal Time (UT).
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