<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/community/planetarium/bakersfield-night-sky/2025/0215.html" dsn="news"><featured/><title>Bakersfield Night Sky — February 15, 2025</title><item_date>02/13/2025 08:39:50 AM</item_date><author>Nick Strobel</author><description/><image><img src="/_resources/assets/img/news/bakersfield-night-sky/february-24-2025-BNS-h.jpg" alt="February 24 at 6:15 PM looking southwest"/></image><tags><tag>2025</tag><tag>bns</tag></tags><content_summary>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....</content_summary></item>