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The peak of the Southern Taurid meteor shower (5 to 10 per hour) occurs at 11:00 UT.

The partial phase of a rare hybrid (annular/total) solar eclipse begins at 10:05 UT; New Moon (lunation 1124) occurs at 12:50 UT.

The Moon is 0.8 degree north of the first-magnitude star Spica (Alpha Virginis), with an occultation occurring in most of Asia and northern and central Europe, at 7:00 UT; a double Galilean shadow transit begins at 11:14 UT.

Venus is at greatest eastern elongation (47 degrees) at 8:00 UT; Mercury is in inferior conjunction at 20:00 UT.

Space Surgery Special. Duration: 20 minutes The team go camping at the Brecon Beacons star party and answer problems and queries about what to see in the night sky and how to use a telescope. Viewers have been sending in astronomy questions in the hundreds since the Space Surgery was launched six months ago. To see all upcoming broadcasts of this edition, please click here. **To sign the recent online petition to the BBC, urging them to scrap any plans that they may have to axe The Sky at Night programme in 2014, please click here.**

Space Surgery Special. Duration: 20 minutes The team go camping at the Brecon Beacons star party and answer problems and queries about what to see in the night sky and how to use a telescope. Viewers have been sending in astronomy questions in the hundreds since the Space Surgery was launched six months ago. To see all upcoming broadcasts of this edition, please click here. **To sign the recent online petition to the BBC, urging them to scrap any plans that they may have to axe The Sky at Night programme in 2014, please click here.**

Space Surgery Special. Duration: 20 minutes The team go camping at the Brecon Beacons star party and answer problems and queries about what to see in the night sky and how to use a telescope. Viewers have been sending in astronomy questions in the hundreds since the Space Surgery was launched six months ago. To see all upcoming broadcasts of this edition, please click here. **To sign the recent online petition to the BBC, urging them to scrap any plans that they may have to axe The Sky at Night programme in 2014, please click here.**

Mars is 6 degrees north of the Moon at 1:00 UT.

A double Galilean shadow transit begins at 21:56 UT.

The Curtiss Cross, an X-shaped illumination effect located between the craters Parry and Gambart, is predicted to occur at 22:38 UT.

A double Galilean shadow transit begins at 8:38 UT; Last Quarter Moon occurs at 23:40 UT.

The Moon is at apogee, subtending 29 arc minutes from a distance of 404,557 kilometers (251,379 miles), at 14:00 UT; Jupiter is 5 degrees north of the Moon at 22:00 UT.

A double Galilean shadow transit begins at 14:30 UT.

A double Galilean shadow transit begins at 19:22 UT.

The peak of the Orionid meteor shower (10 to 20 per hour) occurs at 11:00 UT.

A double Galilean shadow transit begins at 6:26 UT.

A penumbral lunar eclipse begins at 21:50 UT; Full Moon, known as the Blood Moon and this year’s Hunter’s Moon, occurs at 23:38 UT.

A double Galilean shadow transit begins at 11:58 UT; Uranus is 3 degrees south of the Moon at 21:00 UT.

Venus is 1.6 degrees north of first-magnitude star Antares (Alpha Scorpii) at 15:00 UT.

Neptune is 6 degrees south of the Moon at 6:00 UT; a double Galilean shadow transit begins at 17:29 UT.

Mars is 1 degree north of first-magnitude star Regulus (Alpha Leonis) at 22:00 UT.

Asteroid 3 Juno is 0.9 degree north of the Moon, with an occultation taking place in far southern South America, the Falkland Islands, and most of Antarctica, at 2:00 UT.

A double Galilean shadow transit begins at 3:25 UT; a rare triple Galilean shadow transit begins at 4:33 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 19:50 UT; First Quarter Moon occurs at 23:02 UT.

Mercury is 5 degrees south of Saturn at 18:00 UT; the Moon is at perigee, subtending 32 arc minutes from a distance of 369,813 kilometers (229,792 miles), at 23:00 UT.