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Planetary Alignment News 7 August 2025 - 1 September 2025

Rare Auroras, Shooting Stars and a Planet Parade: Sky Spectacle on Sept 1–2, 2025

Rare Auroras, Shooting Stars and a Planet Parade: Sky Spectacle on Sept 1–2, 2025

Key Facts Auroras Incoming: Solar Storm Set to Dazzle Unusual Latitudes Skywatch alert: A geomagnetic storm watch is in effect for September 1–2, 2025, as an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) arrives. This solar eruption – launched by a long-lasting M2.7-class flare on Aug 30 – is expected to buffet Earth’s magnetic field starting late on Sept 1 (UTC), with disturbances continuing into Sept 2 swpc.noaa.gov. Initially, NOAA’s models predict G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storm conditions when the CME hits, ramping up to G3 (Strong) as the main bulk of the plasma cloud sweeps past on Sept 2 space.com. In practical
1 September 2025
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Six Planets Will Align in the Sky This Month—Here’s When and How to Watch the Rare “Planet Parade”

Sky Spectacle Alert: Rare Planet Parade Converges with a Black Moon – Here’s What to Know

In late August 2025, a six-planet parade—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will be visible in the pre-dawn sky along with a rare Black Moon. The Black Moon moment occurs around 2:06 a.m. EDT on Saturday, August 23, 2025 (6:06 UTC), placing the new moon between Earth and Sun. The Black Moon itself is invisible, but its timing yields moonless, darker skies that reveal fainter stars and the Milky Way. The six-planet parade runs roughly August 17–20, 2025, peaks around August 18–19, and Mercury begins to drop from view by August 21. <li Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn will be
19 August 2025
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Meteor Showers, Northern Lights & a Planet Parade – Aug 7–8 Night Sky Spectacle

Meteor Showers, Northern Lights & a Planet Parade – Aug 7–8 Night Sky Spectacle

The Perseids, active in early August and building toward their mid-August peak, can reach about 100 meteors per hour at maximum under dark skies, with bright blue fireballs from debris of Comet Swift–Tuttle. The 2025 Perseids peak will be hampered by moonlight: the Sturgeon Moon will be full on Aug 9, and the Moon will be 84–90% illuminated around Aug 11–13, washing out dim meteors and reducing the typical 50–75 meteors per hour to mostly bright fireballs. Eta Eridanids peak on the night of Aug 7–8, contributing about 3 meteors per hour at best. On Aug 7–8, Venus (mag −4.0)
7 August 2025
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