Oct 7, 2025 | Rick's Picks
Transient Events That Can Give Us a Good Enough Reason to Get Outside and Do a Little Observing All month: Mercury and Mars share the evening sunset this month, but neither of them will be an easy catch. Mercury begins October at mag -0.5 with a 93% illuminated 5”...
Aug 28, 2025 | Rick's Picks
Transient Events That Can Give Us a Good Enough Reason To Get Outside and Do a Little Observing All month: the early evening sky is still bereft of planets this month, other than unimpressive mag +1.6 Mars, now just 4” across, and it too will disappear into the sunset...
Aug 28, 2025 | Rick's Picks
Transient Events That Can Give Us a Good Enough Reason to Get Outside and Do a Little Observing All month: Mars continues to have the evening sky to itself this month, but it doesn’t make much use of it, setting just after 10 pm (less than 2 hours after the Sun) as...
