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  • Stargazing News - January 11th, 2025

    From CJ@21:2/156 to All on Fri Jan 10 08:23:42 2025
    Saturday, January 11, 2025

    Mars Closest to Earth (overnight)

    A few days before Mars reaches opposition on January 15-16, the red planet
    will be closest to Earth on Saturday, January 11 in the Americas. That night, Mars will be 59.70 million miles, 96.08 million km, or 5.33 light-minutes
    away. You can view the bright reddish planet from late evening onward, near
    the bright stars Pollux and Castor in Gemini. In a telescope, the planet will exhibit its maximum apparent disk size of 14.6 arc-seconds, revealing the greatest amount of surface detail this year. Mars will continue to brighten in the sky until opposition night. The difference in the two dates arises because the distance between Earth's and Mars' elliptical orbits is increasing at this time of the year.

    (Data courtesy of Starry Night)
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