The 365 Days of Astronomy Actual Astronomy - Observer’s Calendar For October
Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. actualastronomy@gmail.com
The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents Episode 502: The Observer’s Calendar for October 2025. In this episode we talk about a long list of observing events from Carbon stars to many shadow transits of the Moon of Jupiter. Don’t miss the Orionid meteor shower and catch Saturn with its rings edge on! We also discuss some stars and deep sky objects and two bright comets coming our way!
- Oct 1 - Monday Oct 1 - Carbon Star FU Mon is at it’s best tonight
- Oct 2 - Minor Planet Ceres is at opposition at m-7.6
- Oct 4 & 5th - Double Shadow Transit on Jupiter. 12:49am and 7:03pm EST.
- Oct 6th - Full Moon as Saturn, Neptune and Moon congregate in late evening sky
- Oct 7th - Full Moon today but try and Follow Sirius with your unaided eye into the daylight
sky this week and see if you can ferret Vega out before sunset.
- Double shadow transit?
- Oct 9th Endymion sunset rays visible on Moon
- Oct 10 - South Taurid Meteor shower in pre-dawn sky - ZHR = 5 to 10
- Oct 11 - Double Shadow Transit on Jupiter 2:42 am est.
- Oct 12 - Jupiter 4-degrees S. Of Moon & another Jupiter double shadow transit at 9:11pm & Zodiacal light becomes visible this week!
- Oct 13 - Last Quarter Moon & Carbon Star RT Capricornus best tonight
- Oct 14 - Variable star T Cephei at max mag. 5.2 this evening
- Oct 15 - Saturn ring tile of -1.01-degrees!
- Oct 16 - Moon occults Regulus 1pm est - We miss it
- Oct 18 - Double Shadow transit on Jupiter
- Oct 20 - Mercury 2-degrees S of Mars (conjunction)
- Double Shadow transit on Jupiter
- Carbon Star RZ Pegasai at it’s best tonight
- Oct 21 - New moon & Orionid Meteor Shower peaks with ZHR of 20 in predawn hours
- - These meteors originate from Comet Halley, 1 part of stream..second part in Aquarids of May
- - Also, another double shadow transit on Jupiter
- Oct 22 - Gegenschein visible from dark skies, high in S at midnight
- Oct 23 - NGC 1269 well placed for those much farther south of 50-N
- Oct 24 - Carbon star S Scuti at it’s best tonight
- Oct 25 2 more Shadows on Jupiter 7:18pm
- - Saturn ring tilt closes to -0.72-degrees
- Oct 26 Carbon Star UV Aquili best tonight
- Oct 27 - NGCs 55, 247 & 300 well placed in south late in the evening
- Oct 28 - Lunar X visible near crater Werner
- - Another double shadow transit on Jupiter
- Oct 29 - First Quarter Moon & Mercury at greatest elongation in evening sky - LOW
- - Lunar Straight wall visible this evening
- Oct 30 Jeweled Handle visible on Moon
- From AI- The Jeweled Handle (or Golden Handle) on the Moon is a clair-obscur effect where the peaks of the Montes Jura mountain range, bordering the Sinus Iridum (Bay of Rainbows), are illuminated by the rising sun at lunar dawn. This creates the illusion of a "handle" formed by bright, curved mountain peaks against the shadowed basin of the Sinus Iridum.
Look out for:
Comet C2025 R2 SWAN
C/2025 A6 Lemmon
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