Astronomical stuff 2025 (please add events)

f00l posted a pic said Fri, Feb 28th 2025 at 4:39pm ET

Here’s a start:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/28/planetary-parade-alignment-2025-time-how-watch/80838020007/

/image Hubble 2
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kuoh said Fri, Feb 28th 2025 at 8:39pm ET:

They better be careful they don’t accidentally see past the curvature of the universe with that thing or they’ll lose 3 years and things get a bit hairy after that!

KuoH

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phendrick said Sat, Mar 1st 2025 at 12:16am ET:

Rangers defeat Boston Red Sox on opening day, March 27, 2025.
it’s here, because the odds against that are probably astronomical.

Even more astronomical are the odds against that Jerry Jones improves the Cowboys roster by astute draft picks and beneficial trades.

And let’s not talk about the boneheaded trade of fan favorite Luka of the Mavericks.

Hell, i might have to start supporting the Houston teams. Burbon or scotch should help with that chased by Casemates offerings that are aging more gracefully than i…

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- @phendrick
  
  JJ is, as a public individual involved in sports, a combo of:
  
  Grade C+ franchise owner in the value and profit areas of team ownership
  (needs to work hard on getting better at the “absentee” aspect of team ownership)
  
  Horrible beyond horrible general managar
  
  Total narcissistic AH.
  
  f00l said Sat, Mar 1st 2025 at 11:58pm ET
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phendrick said Sat, Mar 1st 2025 at 12:31am ET:

[back on topic
https://orbitaltoday.com/2025/02/27/skywatching-guide-look-out-for-these-top-10-celestial-events-in-march-2025/

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stolicat said Sat, Mar 1st 2025 at 12:51am ET:

Total Lunar Eclipse, visible through out the contiguous 48.
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2025-march-14

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- @stolicat Cool, thanks! I’m surprised I hadn’t heard anything about this until you posted it.
  
  Kyeh said Sat, Mar 1st 2025 at 12:54am ET
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  Aren’t lunar eclipses not so rare?
  
  That sort of visibility might be rare.
  
  f00l said Sun, Mar 2nd 2025 at 12:00am ET
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- @f00l @stolicat Not that rare, I guess, but I’ve only seen a few and I enjoy seeing them.
  
  Kyeh said Sun, Mar 2nd 2025 at 12:23am ET
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stolicat said Sun, Mar 2nd 2025 at 1:33am ET:

Overall not that rare, partials are common, but this one’s unique in that it’s centered over the US and has a totality of over an hour - 11:26 pm - 12:31 am pacific coast time. So if you’re into that red moon thing …

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- @stolicat That’s a pretty reasonable hour to be up to see it. Unfortunately for us East Coasters, totality will be from 2:26 am to 3:31 am. Seems like it will be worth it, though.
  
  ItalianScallion said Sun, Mar 2nd 2025 at 11:48am ET
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- @ItalianScallion @stolicat my dad just sent me a link to the upcoming lunar eclipse, but ~2:30AM is hard for me as I get up at 4:30 for work. We took the kids to the solar eclipse last year (only live 2 hours from the path of totality) and they loved it. May be worth the pain to get them up so they can say they’ve seen a total solar and total lunar eclipse…
  
  bigcurmudgeon said Thu, Mar 6th 2025 at 8:11am ET
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sammydog01 said Sun, Mar 2nd 2025 at 2:05pm ET:

There’s a tracker for starlink satellites- I keep seeing cool photos and would like to see the real thing. I tried a couple of times and no luck, stupid trees.
https://findstarlink.com/

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ItalianScallion said Sun, Mar 2nd 2025 at 4:12pm ET:

There’s an online tracker for satellites offered by AMSAT, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. It tracks many more satellites than just ham radio ones and it’s free to use. See here AMSAT satellite tracker webpage

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  Maybe just friendly aliens who like to “cosplay black helicopters”?
  
  f00l said Sat, Mar 8th 2025 at 8:42pm ET
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sammydog01 said Tue, Mar 4th 2025 at 4:28pm ET:

I found a site to identify the black helicopters that fly over my house.
https://www.flightradar24.com

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- @sammydog01 But aren’t the black helicopters invisible to radar?
  
  Or is that only the bad ones, and those around you are benign?
  
  xobzoo said Thu, Mar 6th 2025 at 6:43am ET
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- @xobzoo The last one just said US Marine Corp with the departure point. I’m waiting for the twin federal reserve helicopters to swing by, I haven’t seen them for a while.
  
  There’s a B-52 Stratofortress in Sweden you can track right now.
  
  sammydog01 said Tue, Mar 11th 2025 at 8:53am ET
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heartny said Sun, Mar 9th 2025 at 9:55pm ET:

Saturn’s rings will disappear

www.earth.com/news/saturns-majestic-rings-will-vanish-next-week-ring-plane-crossing/

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- @heartny Interesting!
  
  Kyeh said Mon, Mar 10th 2025 at 2:32am ET
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- @heartny @Kyeh
  
  Saturn apparently has lots and lots of moons.
  
  274 found so far.
  
  https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/saturn-moon-king-1.7483266
  
  f00l said Thu, Mar 13th 2025 at 8:48pm ET
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f00l said Thu, Mar 13th 2025 at 8:50pm ET:

The blood moon eclipse is tonite!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/red-orange-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-what-to-know/

Check the expected start and max for your location. I think after midnight for EDT and CDT. Before midnight for other time zones.

/image blood moon

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