Planet Scenes July 2025
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July 25: Venus & Jupiter, Uranus The main planet action is in the morning sky now, with Uranus hovering below and right of the Pleiades, while farther down the ecliptic, Venus and Jupiter are beginning to make apparent their impending conjunction in August. |
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July 23: Mars Mars continues to move through the rather barren naked-eye regions of Leo on its way to entering the constellation Virgo, now being difficult to pick out in twilight owing to its dimness and lack of any nearby stars to aid in locating it. |
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July 22: Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon Two days after the Moon's passage through the Pleiades, we are treated to another spectacle, this time a nearly perfect isosceles triangle comprising the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter among the stars of Taurus and Gemini. |
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July 20: Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and the Moon On this morning of the special passage of the crescent Moon through the Pleiades, we also check in on Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, as well as Venus continuing to move eastward through Taurus. |
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July 16: Planets in Taurus Venus continues to move through Taurus, having now cleared the Hyades cluster and heading towards its August rendezvous with Jupiter in Gemini. But in mid-July we still see it easily in the same frame with Uranus, still in its position to the south (lower right in our morning view) of the Pleiades. |
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July 15: Sun with Sunspots In mid-July 2025, the face of the Sun was graced with numerous small sunspots and groups, which I tried to capture using my full frame Nikon with a 1970's vintage Celestron C-90; the images were stacked in Autostakkert 4 and wavelet processed in RegiStax 6, then colorized and furher enhanced in PowerPoint. |
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July 11: Venus and Uranus Venus approaches the Hyades and Uranus is still situated south of the Pleiades in these views of the early morning sky from Bolton Landing, New York. The pictures are nearly the same, the only difference being the position of the clouds drifting through the scene ... |
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July 5: Mercury and Mars in the Evening Mercury is still easily visible low in the evening sky and Mars continues racing eastward against the stars in Leo, by now considerably upper left of Regulus. |
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July 4: Sun from Earth near aphelion The Earth was at aphelion yesterday but I was unable to acquire an image of the Sun, so we will have to do with being a day late LOL. |
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July 3: Venus and Uranus Venus slides south of Uranus this morning and the next several mornings, with both situated to the lower right of the Pleiades as seen from central Virginia. |
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