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Mercury is 4 degrees south of the Moon at 7:00 UT; Neptune is 5 degrees south of the Moon at 14:00 UT.
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Mercury is at greatest eastern elongation (18.4 degrees) at 10:00 UT.
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The Moon is at perigee, subtending 33 arc minutes from a distance of 357,080 kilometers (221,879 miles), at 9:59 UT; New Moon (lunation 1127) occurs at 21:38 UT.
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Venus is 2 degrees north of the Moon at 3:00 UT.
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Mars is 5 degrees north of Spica at 20:00 UT.
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Saturn is 0.6 degree north of the Moon, with an occultation visible from part of Antarctica, the far southern portion of South America, New Zealand, and French Polynesia, at 14:00 UT.
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Last Quarter Moon occurs at 5:19 UT; the Curtiss Cross, an X-shaped illumination effect located between the craters Parry and Gambart, is predicted to begin at 17:28 UT.
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Mars is 4 degrees north of the Moon at 6:00 UT; the Walther Sunset Lunar Ray is predicted to begin at 9:41 UT; the Moon is 1.3 degrees north of the first-magnitude star Spica (Alpha Virginis) at 10:00 UT.
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The Moon is at apogee, subtending 29 arc minutes from a distance of 406,532 kilometers (252,607 miles), at 1:53 UT; Full Moon (known as the Ice Moon, the Moon After Yule, the Old Moon, and the Wolf Moon), the smallest of the year, occurs at 4:52 UT.
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Jupiter is 5 degrees north of the Moon at 6:00 UT.
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Venus is in inferior conjunction at 12:00 UT.
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First Quarter Moon occurs at 3:39 UT; asteroid 2 Pallas is stationary at 9:00 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 begin at 15:59 UT.
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Uranus is 3 degrees south of the Moon at 13:00 UT.
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Neptune is 5 degrees south of the Moon at 2:00 UT; Jupiter (magnitude -2.7, apparent size 46.8") is at opposition at 21:00 UT.
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The Earth is at perihelion (147,104,781 kilometers or 91,406,673 miles distant from the Sun) at 12:00 UT.
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Mars is at aphelion at 0:00 UT; the peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower (40 to 120 or more per hour) occurs at 20:00 UT.
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Venus is 2 degrees south of the Moon at 12:00 UT.
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New Moon (lunation 1126) occurs at 11:14 UT; Pluto is in conjunction with the Sun at 19:00 UT; the Moon is at perigee, subtending 33 arc minutes from a distance of 356,923 kilometers (221,781 miles), at 20:59 UT.
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Saturn is 0.9 degree north of the Moon, with an occultation visible from part of Antarctica and the Kerguelen Islands, at 1:00 UT; Mercury is in superior conjunction at 7:00 UT.
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The Moon is 1.1 degrees north of the first-magnitude star Spica (Alpha Virginis), with an occultation visible from most of Antarctica and the Kerguelen Islands, at 3:00 UT.
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The Curtiss Cross, an X-shaped illumination effect located between the craters Parry and Gambart, is predicted to occur at 2:51 UT; Mars is 5 degrees north of the Moon at 3:00 UT.
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Last Quarter Moon occurs at 13:48 UT.
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The peak of the Ursid meteor shower (10 per hour) occurs at 14:00 UT.
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Mercury is at aphelion today; Venus is at the ascending node today; the shortest day of the year at 40 degrees north latitude occurs today; winter solstice in the northern hemisphere occurs at 17:11 UT.
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The Moon is at apogee, subtending 29 arc minutes from a distance of 406,269 kilometers (252,444 miles), at 0:00 UT; Venus is stationary at 20:00 UT.