Bakersfield Night Sky 2025

Our season of spring officially begins when the sun crosses north of the celestial equator at the March equinox. For those in the southern hemisphere, that marks the beginning of their season of fall/autumn. This year the March equinox is on March...

While Saturn has now sunk into the twilight glow too close to the sun to be seen in the evening sky on its way to solar conjunction on March 15, Mercury continues to climb upward away from the sun in the west to keep the planet parade going for a...

The “parade of planets” in the evening sky continues. Starting the evening of February 22, Mercury will join the line-up but it will be very low near the horizon shortly after sunset, so you might need binoculars to pick it out in the twilight glow....

The spring season of shows at the William M Thomas Planetarium begin this Friday and Saturday (February 7 & 8) with three showings of Mesmerica each night. Later in February, on Thursday, February 20, is the showing of “Ice Worlds”. Other shows...

Bakersfield College starts back up this coming week and the spring slate of evening shows at the William M Thomas Planetarium will be posted this week but we already have the Mesmerica shows lined up for the first Fridays and Saturdays in February,...

Happy New Year and happy perihelion day! Earth is closest to the sun today at just 91,406,000 miles (1.55 million miles closer than its mean distance of 92.956 million miles).  The evening sky is putting on a nice show of solar system objects. From...