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October Naked Astronomy podcast released

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As Comet ISON draws near to its close approach with the Sun in November, much uncertainty remains over how brilliant it will be. Dominic Ford speaks to Matthew Bishop at the Lowell Observatory to find out more. He also talks to Apostolos Christou from the Armagh Observatory about a group of asteroids which closely follow the orbit and Mars, and appear to fragments of a much larger pair of asteroids which collided. Tamela Maciel from the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge reports on the lonely exoplanet which doesn't seem to have a parent star, and Kirsten Gottschalk from the International... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

More details of the podcast are posted here, and on the Naked Astronomy website.

The sky on 17 Oct 2025

The sky on 17 October 2025
Sunrise
06:56
Sunset
18:14
Twilight ends
19:38
Twilight begins
05:33

26-day old moon
Waning Crescent

7%

26 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 08:44 13:55 19:06
Venus 05:23 11:25 17:26
Moon 03:26 09:59 16:22
Mars 08:49 14:03 19:18
Jupiter 23:45 06:49 13:54
Saturn 17:01 22:54 04:46
All times shown in PDT.

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This information was taken from the Naked Astronomy website.

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South El Monte

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34.05°N
118.05°W
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