The 2015 APOD calendar is now available for download and printing in PDF format from the links at the bottom of this post.
Designed for 8.5″ x 11″ paper (landscape orientation), the calendar is easily printable. For best printed results, print it double-sided in color on bright white light card stock or heavy paper with a spiral or comb (GBC) binding and punch a hole for hanging; many local printing shops (Staples, Kinkos, etc.) offer binding services. Containing APOD images, the calendar makes a great inexpensive birthday or holiday present!
Since the calendar is in PDF, it can be viewed on devices such as the Kindle and many e-readers.
The 2015 calendar is available in different versions, and all calendars have annotations for eclipses, meteor shower peaks, conjunctions, oppositions, solstices, equinoxes, perihelion and aphelion. APOD explanations for each monthly image are shown, and previous year’s APODs appear as watermarks in each calendar day cell. All images are hyperlinks to their respective APOD pages when viewing the calendar digitally.
Please note that all dates/times are UTC so some moon phases may seem as if they are one day off. Also please remember that best viewing of meteor showers may not be on the peak nights due to moonlight.
These calendars were created by Dr. Nemiroff, one of the two editors of APOD, and he thanks all who offered suggestions for improvements to the almost-final versions.
The last page of the PDF appears upside-down; this is deliberate. When printed, this page serves as the back cover of the calendar and allows one to see thumbnails of all the images in the calendar in the correct orientation (in relation to the front cover).
Calendar download links
- General
- Weather and Volcanoes
- Galaxies
- Nebulas and Star Clusters
- Land and Skyscapes
- Sun
- Moons and Planets
- Spaceflight
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Will there be a regular print version? (ie, already printed, available in stores type?)
We offer these digitally only; I had last year’s APOD calendar printed and spiral-bound at my local copy shop.
Some printers may offer them, however, and as I learn about them, I will post a notice here.
I wish I had eight houses.
Two rooms, four walls a room… ?
Wooow this is an amazing idea, I’m certainly giving them on Christmas to all colleagues!
The hyperlinks looks white in the PDF but when i’m gonna print them, this color it will change to the normal picture?!?! i’m curious
The PDF files just take a bit to load. Come back to the open tab after a minute or so (depends on your internet connection) and all the images should be there!
I want to visit the airglow place. do we have prediction calendar ?
I don’t understand this question. Airglow is visible all over the globe.
The individual day pic are dark and the day number does not show on some. The 2014 calendar does not have this problem.
Good job
Very nice job overall and great idea. I hope I don’t seem overly picky, but in the ‘Weather and Volcanoes’ calendar, the label for July is quite hard to read, and in addition it says ‘pictured above’ when in fact the label is above the picture. Otherwise I would print up this calendar, but looking at a typo for a month would slowly kill me…
Could we have an option to leave blank the squares for individual days? I write on my calendars and many dates have dark-colored pictures where writing would not be visible.
Yeah, I know, I’m being way too picky. These calendars are gorgeous, and I wish to express my congratulations to the designer(s) for a job very well done.
fantastic
I really would be nice to have an European version (Monday first day of the week and DIN A4 paper format 210 mm x 297 mm)