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October 2017 Sky

  • Posted by OCastronomy
  • On October 1, 2017
October 2017 Sky 3 Moon near Neptune (152° from Sun, evening sky) at 12h UT. Mag. 7.8. Occultation visible from Tasmania and New Zealand. • Occultation of Neptune (IOTA) 5 Venus 0.2° NNE of Mars (23° from Sun, morning sky) at 17h UT. Mags. −3.9 and 1.8. 5 Full Moon at 18:41 UT. 8 Mercury at superior conjunction with the Sun […]
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September 2017 Sky

  • Posted by OCastronomy
  • On September 1, 2017
September 2017 Sky 1 Venus 1.2° SSW of Beehive cluster (morning sky) at 13h UT. Mag. −4.0. • Beehive Cluster (Wikipedia) • M44: The Beehive Cluster (APOD) 6 Moon 0.7° SSE of Neptune (178° from Sun, midnight sky) at 5h UT. Mag. +7.8. 6 Full Moon at 7:04 UT. 10 Mercury 0.6° S of Regulus (18° from Sun, morning sky) at 12h UT. […]
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August 2017 Sky

  • Posted by OCastronomy
  • On July 31, 2017
August 2017 Sky 2 Moon near Antares (evening sky) at 9h UT. • Antares (Wikipedia) 2 Venus 2.4° S of M35 cluster (morning sky) at 15h UT. Mag. −4.0. 2 Moon at apogee (farthest from Earth) at 18h UT (distance 405,025 km; angular size 29.5′). 3 Moon near Saturn (evening sky) at 8h UT. Mag. 0.3. • Saturn (Wikipedia) 7 Partial Eclipse of […]
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July 2017 Sky

  • Posted by OCastronomy
  • On June 30, 2017
July 2017 Sky Sky Calendar — July 2017 1 First Quarter Moon at 0:51 UT. 1 Moon near Jupiter (evening sky) at 9h UT. Mag. −2.0. 2 Moon near Spica (evening sky) at 5h UT. 3 Earth at Aphelion (farthest from Sun) at 20h UT. The Sun- Earth distance is 1.016676 a.u. or about 152.1 […]
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June 2017 Sky

  • Posted by OCastronomy
  • On May 30, 2017
June 2017 Sky 1 First Quarter Moon at 12:42 UT. 3 Venus 1.7° SSE of Uranus at 5h UT. Mags. −4.3 and 5.9. 3 Venus at greatest elongation west (46° from Sun, morning sky) at 12h UT. Mag −4.3. 4 Moon near Jupiter (evening sky) at 1h UT. Mag. −2.2. • Jupiter (Wikipedia) 4 Moon […]
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May 2017 Sky

  • Posted by OCastronomy
  • On April 30, 2017
May 2017 Sky 2 Moon near Beehive cluster (evening sky) at 18h UT. • Beehive Cluster (Wikipedia) • M44: The Beehive Cluster (APOD) 3 First Quarter Moon at 2:47 UT. 4 Moon near Regulus (evening sky) at 10h UT. Occultation visible from Australia and New Zealand. • Occultation of Regulus (IOTA) 5 Mars 6.2° N […]
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April 2017 Sky

  • Posted by OCastronomy
  • On March 31, 2017
April 2017 Sky  1 Moon near Aldebaran (evening sky) at 9h UT. Occultation visible from southern Asia, Japan, and Korea. 1 Mercury at greatest elongation east (19° from Sun, evening sky) at 10h UT. Mag. 0.0. 3 First Quarter Moon at 18:40 UT. 5 Moon near Beehive cluster (evening sky) at 12h UT. • Beehive […]
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March 2017 Sky

  • Posted by OCastronomy
  • On February 28, 2017
March 2017 Sky 1 Moon near Venus (32° from Sun, evening sky) at 2h UT. Mag. −4.6. 1 Moon near Mars (43° from Sun) at 21h UT. Mag. 1.3. 3 Moon at perigee (closest to Earth) at 7:29 UT (369,062 km; angular size 32.4′). 4 Moon near the Pleiades (evening sky) at 10h UT. • […]
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February 2017 Sky

  • Posted by OCastronomy
  • On January 31, 2017
February 2017 Sky 1 Moon near Mars (50° from Sun) at 3h UT. Mag. 1.1. 4 First Quarter Moon at 4:19 UT. 5 Moon near the Pleiades (evening sky) at 5h UT. • The Pleiades (Wikipedia) 5 Moon very near Aldebaran (evening sky) at 19h UT. Occultation visible from north Africa and southern Europe. • […]
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January 2017 Sky

  • Posted by OCastronomy
  • On January 1, 2017
January 2017 Sky 1 Mars 0.02° South of Neptune (59° from Sun, evening sky) at 7h UT. Mags. 0.9 and 7.9. 2 Moon near Venus (47° from Sun, evening sky) at 8h UT. Mag. -4.4. • Crescent Moon and Venus (APOD) 3 Moon near Mars (58° from Sun) at 7h UT. Mag. 0.9. 3 Quadrantid […]
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