I have a problem looking up. No – not just looking up from my phone – but taking time to look up from the to-do lists, tearing my gaze from the manuscript editing, and even looking beyond the road ahead of me while driving around to after school activities.
Heck, just taking time to go outside on a clear night after dinner, homework, laundry putting kids to bed to peer around the thick Woodlands trees is a rare occasion. Honestly, if it’s too hard to look up, these days, I just don’t do it.
The past few years, I lucked into rare events like a partial solar eclipse in 2023 and the total solar eclipse in 2024 – but normally, on a clear night when the moon appears five times brighter than normal, I shrug and think maybe I should have added these events in my calendar – every year celestial events sneak up on me.
I am supposed to be the “science mom”, aren’t I? Shouldn’t I be in the one know about celestial events to share with you? Wouldn’t I be the one that takes the kids out to look up? The answer is yes… sigh.
So, as I start off 2025, I’m going to pencil these times in my calendar, use this app, grab the kids before bedtime, and take some time to look up for once. I hope you do too.💕
January
- January 3 Quadrantids Meteor Shower
- January 13 First Full Moon (Wolf Moon) and will appear to pass in front of Mars
- January 16 Mars will be at it’s brightest
- January: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn will appear brightly in the sky and can be seen without a telescope
February
- February 12 Full Moon (Snow Moon) will
- February 16 Venus will be at it’s brightest!
March
- March 14 Total lunar eclipse of a full Blood Moon🌚
- March 29 Partial solar eclipse🌞
April
- April 22 Lyrid meteor shower peaks
- April 23 Full Moon (Pink Moon)
May
- May 6 Eta Aquiriad meteor shower peaks. The origins of these meteors are from Halley’s Comet! ☄️
June
- June 11 Full Moon (Strawberry Moon)
- June 30 Asteroid Day!
July
- July 10 Full Moon (Buck Moon)
- July 31 Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower peaks
August
- August 9: Full Moon (Sturgeon Moon)
- August 12: The Perseid meteor shower peaks
September
- September 17: Full Moon (Harvest Moon)
- September 21: Saturn will be at it’s brightest
- September 23: Neptune will be at it’s brightest
October
- October 6: Full Moon (Hunters Moon)
- October – three supermoons in a row
- October 21: The Orionid meteor shower peaks. The origins of these meteors are ALSO from Halley’s Comet!
November
- November 5: Full Moon (Beaver Moon)
- November 17: The Leonid meteor shower peaks
- November 21: Uranus will be at its brightest
December
- December 4: Full Moon (Cold Moon)
- Dec. 14: The Geminid meteor shower peaks
- Dec. 22: The Ursid meteor shower peaks
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