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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Note: Moon phases in the calendar vary in size due to the distance
from Earth and are shown at 0h Universal Time.
1 First Quarter Moon occurs at 6:21 A.M. EDT
2 Asteroid Juno is at opposition, 4 P.M. EDT
3 Mercury passes 1.4° south of Neptune, 11 A.M. EDT
7 The Moon is at perigee (221,771 miles from Earth), 2:09 P.M. EDT
Full Moon occurs at 10:35 P.M. EDT
14 The Moon passes 1.2° south of Pluto, 6 P.M. EDT
Last Quarter Moon occurs at 6:56 P.M. EDT
The Moon passes 2° south of Jupiter, 7 P.M. EDT
15 The Moon passes 2° south of Saturn, 5 A.M. EDT
16 The Moon passes 2° south of Mars, 1 A.M. EDT
17 Venus passes 10° north of Aldebaran, 4 P.M. EDT
19 The Moon passes 4° south of Neptune, 3 A.M. EDT
20 The Moon is at apogee (252,564 miles from Earth), 3:00 P.M. EDT
22 Lyrid meteor shower peaks
New Moon occurs at 10:26 P.M. EDT
26 Uranus is in conjunction with the Sun, 5 A.M. EDT
The Moon passes 0.1° north of asteroid Vesta, 7 A.M. EDT
Pluto is stationary, 9 A.M. EDT
The Moon passes 6° south of Venus, 11 A.M. EDT
27 Venus is at greatest brilliancy (magnitude –4.7), 2 P.M. EDT
30 First Quarter Moon occurs at 4:38 P.M. EDT
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