The Moon is 0.8 degree north of the first-magnitude star Spica (Alpha Virginis), with an occultation visible from western Russia, central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, northern Africa, Europe, southern Greenland, and eastern Canada; at 8:15 UT; a double Galilean satellite shadow transit (Callisto’s shadow follows Io’s) begins at 15:20 UT; Venus is 0.4 degrees north of the Moon, with an occultation visible from the Falkland Islands, southern South America, the Pitcairn Islands, French Polynesia, and Kiribati at 21:00 UT; Mars lies within the boundaries of the bright open cluster M44 (Praesepe or the Beehive) in Cancer at 22:00 UT.
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