Mars near the moon, February 9, 2025

If you look up at the moon this evening, February 9, 2025, you will be pampered because the Red Planet Mars is just below an almost complete moon, which sets a great spectacle with a bare eye.

This is certainly one of Naked-Eye’s highlights of the month, with the red planet gliding directly below the southern edge of the moon.

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If you walk on the way every night and look at the moon – the weather allows – you will find that the moon changes the position in relation to the rest of the night sky.

Within a week, the stars and planets are mainly located at the same time in the same place, but the moon changes quite drastically and follows east.

And so the monthly movement of the moon in the sky often comes close to every planet.

On Sunday, February 9, 2025, Mars and the moon will be very close.

Of course, all of this is a question of perspective and how we see objects in the night sky from the earth.

Mars is not close to the moon: it just seems as if it is.

In the practical astronomy language, the Mars 20 Arcminutes south of the lunar center sits at 18:57 UT and at that time places him 4.8 Arcminutes from the southern link of the moon.

This means that if you take a picture of Mars and Moon together this evening, you can receive both moon details and Mars in the same framework.

Although it is not as dramatic as a moon absorption of Mars – when Mars disappears completely behind the moon – the orientation on February 9 offers an exciting opportunity to take some great pictures by The Moon’s Edge and the planet’s disc.

Watch the event

Mars is still quite large, thanks to the opposition in January 2025. This means that Mars is exceeded around 12 Arcseconds.

And the moon is also big and bright. It is just a few days before February 12, which is known as Snow Moon this month.

Of course, imaging is not the only way to enjoy such a view, and a telescope with a good to moderate eyepiece should give you a breathtaking picture of the encounter.

You can also get a good view of Mars and the moon through binoculars.

Moon parallax – the apparent shift of the moon position, depending on the area you see it – has an effect.

The further north of the UK will reduce the separation, while those who live in southern parts of the country will have a slightly greater separation.

If on February 9, 2025 you watch Mars and the moon from parts of Northern Scandinavia and Iceland from parts of Northern Scandinavia and Iceland, you will see a moon recording of Mars, in which the Red Planet actually disappears behind the moon.

If on February 9, 2025 you watch or photograph Mars near the moon – especially if you are lucky enough to see the moon intake, contact us by [email protected] Send e -mail