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Jupiter is 5 degrees north of the Moon at 7:00 UT.
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Full Moon (known as the Before Yule, Cold, Long Nights, and Oak Moon), the smallest of 2013, occurs at 9:28 UT.
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Uranus is 3 degrees south of the Moon at 7:00 UT.
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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 1:05 UT.
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First Quarter Moon occurs at 15:12 UT.
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Neptune is 6 degrees south of the Moon at 17:00 UT.
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Venus is 8 degrees south of the Moon at 0:00 UT; Venus is at its greatest illuminated extent at 19:00 UT.
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The Moon is at perigee, subtending 33 arc minutes from a distance of 360,067 kilometers (223,832 miles), at 10:00 UT.
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New Moon (lunation 1125) occurs at 0:22 UT.
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The Moon is 0.9 degree north of the first-magnitude star Spica (Alpha Virginis), with an occultation occurring in the northern Caribbean, Mexico, and North America, at 17:00 UT.
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Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) reaches perihelion at 19:00 UT.
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Mars is 6 degrees north of the Moon at 16:00 UT.
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Mercury is 0.3 degree south of Saturn at 3:00 UT; the Curtiss Cross, an X-shaped illumination effect located between the craters Parry and Gambart, is predicted to occur at 12:27 UT.
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Last Quarter Moon occurs at 19:28 UT.
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Jupiter is 5 degrees north of the Moon at 5:00 UT; the Moon is at apogee, subtending 29 arc minutes from a distance of 405,443 kilometers (251,931 miles).
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Mercury is at its greatest western elongation (19 degrees) at 3:00 UT.
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Full Moon, known as the Beaver or Frost Moon, occurs at 15:16 UT; the peak of the Leonid meteor shower (15 to 20 per hour) occurs at 17:00 UT.
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Uranus is 3 degrees south of the Moon at 3:00 UT.
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A double Galilean shadow transit begins at 3:09 UT.
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The peak of the Northern Taurid meteor shower (5 to 10 per hour) occurs at 10:00 UT.
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Neptune is 6 degrees south of the Moon at 11:00 UT.
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First Quarter Moon occurs at 5:57 UT; 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 10:05 UT.
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A double Galilean shadow transit begins at 13:50 UT.
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Venus is 8 degrees south of the Moon at 1:00 UT.
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A double Galilean shadow transit begins at 0:32 UT; the Moon is at perigee, subtending 32 arc minutes from a distance of 365,361 kilometers (227,025 miles), at 9:00 UT; Saturn is in conjunction with the Sun at 12:00 UT.