
Last night’s wolf moon, over the Compo cannons (Photo/Pam Docters)

Last night’s wolf moon, over the Compo cannons (Photo/Pam Docters)
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This was also, as reported in the NYT: “…a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s closest approach to the sun.”
“The first full moon of the year will glide through the sky on Monday night. For lucky stargazers in some parts of the world, it will also pass in front of the more-brilliantly-red-than-usual Mars in an event known as a lunar occultation.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/science/moon-mars-comet.html