In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Transit of Io and Europa across Jupiter
- Spring Equinox
- Slow Season on Meteor Showers
- March 2016 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Conjunction of Venus and Saturn
- Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina: Find with binoculars
- Closed Season on Meteor Showers
- February 2016 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Conjunction of Venus and Saturn
- Meteor Activity: Quadrantids
- January 2016 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Mercury joins Uranus and Neptune in the evening, Saturn joins Jupiter, Venus and Mars in the morning. Chance of seeing all planets in one night!
- Meteor Activity: Geminids and Ursids
- Large Meteor seen from Whitby
- Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina
- Winter Solstice
- December 2015 Sky Charts
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Comet Catalina was discovered on 31 October 2013 by the Catalina Sky Survey with their 0.68 meter Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope.
It is closest to the Sun on 15-Nov-2015... [Read more about Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina]
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A large asteroid discovered just a few weeks ago will narrowly miss the Earth on Oct 31st – Halloween.
Nicknamed “the Great Pumpkin” and “Spooky” but technically known as 2015 TB145, is an estimated 400m wide – 20 times bigger than the meteorite that exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013... [Read more about Pumpkin or Skull? Asteroid 2015 TB145 "Near Miss"]
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Uranus and Neptune in the evening, Jupiter and the Moon joining Venus and Mars in the early morning.
- Meteor Activity: Leonids and Taurids
- November 2015 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Uranus at opposition; Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury together in the East
- Meteor Activity: Orionids, more weak Piscids and the Draconids
- October 2015 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Neptune and Uranus replace Saturn in the evning; Venus, Mars and Jupiter at dawn
- Total Lunar Eclipse: 28th September
- Meteor Activity: the weak Piscids
- September 2015 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Saturn in the evening, Venus at dawn
- Meteor Activity: Perseids
- August Nights: ‘The Dark Nights’ Return
- August 2015 Sky Charts
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Moon Phases
Today's Astronomy Times
Whitby, 15 Jun 2025 - 00:17
| Sun | Rise | Set |
|---|---|---|
| Actual | 04:26 | 21:40 |
| Civil Twilight | 03:30 | 22:35 |
| Nautical Twilight | 01:27 | 00:39 |
| Astronomical Twilight |
| Moon | Rise | Set |
|---|---|---|
| 00:43 | 08:15 |