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Mercury is in superior conjunction at 9:00 UT.

Last Quarter Moon occurs at 23:26 UT.

Saturn is 8 degrees north of the Moon at 17:00 UT.

Full Moon (known as the Hunger, Snow, or Storm Moon) occurs at 8:36 UT.

Neptune is in conjunction with the Sun at 10:00 UT.

The Moon is 1.0 degree south of the bright open cluster M35 in Gemini at 10:00 UT.

First Quarter Moon occurs at 7:18 UT; the Moon is 1.4 degrees south of the bright open cluster M45 (the Pleiades) in Taurus at 22:00 UT.

The Lunar X (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 15:11 UT.

Uranus is 6 degrees south of the Moon at 0:00 UT; Jupiter is 7 degrees south of the Moon at 10:00 UT.

Venus is 3 degrees north of the bright emission nebula M8 (the Lagoon Nebula) at 4:00 UT.

Mars is in conjunction with the Sun at 16:00 UT.

New Moon (lunation 1090) occurs at 2:31 UT.

Mercury is 4 degrees south of the Moon at 18:00 UT.

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Venus is 3 degrees north of the Moon at 4:00 UT.

The Curtiss Cross, an X-shaped illumination effect located between the craters Parry and Gambart, is predicted to occur at 2:33 UT.

Last Quarter Moon occurs at 12:57 UT.

A double Galilean satellite transit (Ganymede follows Io) begins at 0:05 UT; Saturn is 8 degrees north of the Moon at 10:00 UT.

Full Moon (known as the Ice Moon, the Moon After Yule, the Old Moon, and the Wolf Moon) occurs at 21:21 UT.

A double Galilean satellite shadow transit (Ganymede’s shadow follows Io’s) begins at 0:43 UT.

A double Galilean satellite transit (Io follows Ganymede) occurs at 21:52 UT; the Moon is 0.9 degree south of the bright open cluster M35 in Gemini at 23:00 UT.

The Moon is 1.3 degrees south of the bright open cluster M45 (the Pleiades) in Taurus at 13:00 UT; Venus is 8 degrees north of the first-magnitude star Antares (Alpha Scorpii) at 21:00 UT.

Mercury is 1.9 degrees north of the bright emission nebula M8 (the Lagoon Nebula) in Sagittarius at 8:00 UT.

The Lunar X (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 00:02 UT ; first Quarter Moon occurs at 11:31 UT.

A double Galilean satellite transit (Europa follows Callisto) begins at 3:50 UT; the Moon is at apogee, subtending 29 arc minutes from a distance of 404,977 kilometers (251,641 miles), at 5:37 UT; Uranus is 7 degrees south of the Moon at 15:00 UT; Jupiter is 7 degrees south of the Moon at 17:00 UT; a double Galilean satellite shadow transit (Io’s shadow follows Ganymede’s) begins at 21:07 UT.