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Mercury is at its greatest heliocentric latitude north today; the Moon is at perigee, subtending 33'20" from a distance of 358,377 kilometers (222,686 miles), at 2:00 UT.
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Mercury is 1.4 degrees north of Venus at 3:00 UT; an extremely shallow penumbral lunar eclipse theoretically visible from the western hemisphere begins at 3:53 UT; Full Moon, known as the Milk or Planting Moon, occurs at 4:25 UT.
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Saturn is 4 degrees north of the Moon at 10:00 UT.
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The Moon is 0.005 degrees north of the first-magnitude star Spica (Alpha Virginis), with an occultation taking place in the Pitcairn Islands, French Polynesia, Melanesia, northeast Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and southeast Asia, at 11:00 UT.
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First Quarter Moon occurs at 4:34 UT.
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The Lunar X (also known as the Werner or Purbach Cross), an X-shaped illumination effect involving various rims and ridges between the craters La Caille, Blanchinus, and Purbach, is predicted to begin at 10:56 UT.
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The Moon is at apogee, subtending 29'26" from a distance of 405,825 kilometers (252,168 miles), at 14:00 UT.
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Jupiter is 3 degrees north of the Moon at 13:00 UT.
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Mercury is in superior conjunction at 21:00 UT.
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New Moon (lunation 1118), with an annular eclipse visible from the central Pacific and Australia already underway, occurs at 00:28 UT.
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Uranus is 4 degrees south of the Moon at 0:00 UT.
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The peak of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower (20 per hour for northern observers) occurs at 6:00 UT; May Day or Beltane, a cross-quarter day, occurs at 20:30 UT.
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Neptune is 6 degrees south of the Moon at 7:00 UT; the Curtiss Cross, an X-shaped illumination effect located between the craters Parry and Gambart, is predicted to begin at 0:58 UT.
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Last Quarter Moon occurs at 11:14 UT.
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Saturn is at opposition (magnitude 0.1, apparent size 18.9") at 8:00 UT.
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The Moon is at perigee, subtending 32'59" from a distance of 362,268 kilometers (225,103 miles), at 20:00 UT.
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Saturn is 4 degrees north of the Moon at 2:00 UT.
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The Moon is 0.004 degree north of the first-magnitude star Spica (Alpha Virginis), with an occultation visible from Madagascar, southern Africa, northern South America, the Caribbean, and southern Central America, at 0:00 UT; Full Moon, known as the Egg or Grass Moon, occurs at 19:57 UT; a partial lunar eclipse reaches its maximum at 20:07 UT.
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Mercury is at its greatest heliocentric latitude south today; the peak of the Lyrid meteor shower (20 per hour) occurs at 11:00 UT.
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Mercury is 2 degrees south of Uranus at 21:00 UT.
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Mars is in conjunction with the Sun at 0:00 UT; First Quarter Moon occurs at 12:31 UT.
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The Lunar X (also known as the Werner or Purbach Cross), an X-shaped illumination effect involving various rims and ridges between the craters La Caille, Blanchinus, and Purbach, is predicted to begin at 23:57 UT.
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The Moon is at apogee, subtending 29'30" from a distance of 404,862 kilometers (251,568 miles), at 22:00 UT.
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Jupiter is 2 degrees north of the Moon at 18:00 UT.
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New Moon (lunation 1117) occurs at 9:35 UT.