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Mercury is at greatest eastern elongation (23 degrees) at 9:00 UT.
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Mercury and Venus are 2 degrees apart at 5:00 UT.
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The peak of the Northern Taurid meteor shower (5 to 10 per hour) occurs at 16:00 UT.
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Mars is 1.4 degrees north of the first-magnitude star Regulus (Alpha Leonis) at 4:00 UT; Mercury is 1.9 degrees north of Antares at 5:00 UT; Full Moon, known as the Beaver or Frost Moon, occurs at 20:16 UT.
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Jupiter is 5 degrees south of the Moon at 19:00 UT; Venus is 4 degrees north of the first-magnitude star Antares (Alpha Scorpii) at 20:00 UT; Neptune is stationary at 21:00 UT.
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Uranus is 6 degrees south of the Moon at 2:00 UT.
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The peak of the Southern Taurid meteor shower (5 to 10 per hour) occurs at 23:00 UT.
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Neptune is 6 degrees south of the Moon at 8:00 UT.
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The Lunar X (Purbach or Werner Cross), an X-shaped illumination effect involving various rims and ridges between the craters La Caille, Blanchinus, and Purbach, is predicted to occur at 2:16 UT.
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First Quarter Moon occurs at 16:38 UT.
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For those affected, clocks go back one hour at 2am.
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Saturn/Spica conj. Double Galilean satellite shadow transit
Big Dipper posted an event in SGL Calendar
Saturn is 5 degrees north of the first-magnitude star Spica (Alpha Virginis) at 5:00 UT; a double Galilean satellite shadow transit (Ganymede’s shadow follows Io’s) begins at 17:48 UT. -
Jupiter (magnitude -2.9, apparent size 49.6") is at opposition at 2:00 UT.
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Mercury is 0.2 degree north of the Moon, with an occultation taking place in French Polynesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia, southeast Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, and Indonesia, at 2:00 UT; Venus is 1.8 degrees north of the Moon at 5:00 UT.
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The Moon is at perigee, subtending 33'33" from a distance of 357,052 kilometers (221,298 miles), at 12:00; New Moon (lunation 1099) occurs at 19:56 UT.
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A double Galilean satellite shadow transit (Io’s shadow follows Ganymede’s) begins at 14:23 UT.
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Mars is 6 degrees north of the Moon at 0:00 UT.
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The peak of the Orionid meteor shower (10 to 20 per hour) occurs at 22:00 UT.
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Last Quarter Moon occurs at 3:30 UT; the Curtiss Cross, an X-shaped illumination effect located between the craters Parry and Gambart, is predicted to occur at 16:16 UT.
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Jupiter is 5 degrees south of the Moon at 20:00 UT; Saturn is in conjunction with the Sun at 21:00 UT.
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Full Moon, known as the Blood Moon and this year’s Hunter’s Moon, occurs at 2:06 UT; the Moon is at apogee, subtending 29'22" from a distance of 406,434 kilometers (252,863 miles), at 12:00 UT.
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Uranus is 6 degrees south of the Moon at 22:00 UT.
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Moon/Neptune conjunction. Peak of the Draconid meteor shower
Big Dipper posted an event in SGL Calendar
Neptune is 6 degrees south of the Moon at 3:00 UT; the peak of the Draconid meteor shower (10 to 30 per hour) occurs at 20:00 UT. -
First Quarter Moon occurs at 3:15 UT; the Lunar X, also known as the Purbach or Werner Cross, an X-shaped illumination effect involving various rims and ridges between the craters La Caille, Blanchinus, and Purbach, is predicted to occur at 12:38 UT.
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Venus is 3 degrees north of the first-magnitude star Spica (Alpha Virginis) at 12:00 UT; asteroid 27 Euterpe is at opposition at 3:00 UT.