July 2019 Sky
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- On July 1, 2019
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- Aldebaran, Antares, Earth at Aphelion, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Mercury at inferior conjunction, Partial Eclipse of the Moon, Pleiades, Regulus, Saturn, Saturn at opposition, Spica, Venus
July 2019 Sky
| 1 | Moon near Venus (12° from Sun, morning sky) at 23h UT. Mag. −3.9. • Venus (Wikipedia) |
| 2 | New Moon at 19:16 UT. Start of lunation 1194. |
| 4 | Moon near Mars (19° from Sun, evening sky) at 6h UT. Mag. 1.8. • Mars (Wikipedia) |
| 4 | Moon near Mercury (evening sky) at 10h UT. Mag. 1.5. • Mercury (Wikipedia) |
| 4 | Earth at Aphelion (farthest from Sun) at 23h UT. The Sun-Earth distance is 1.016754 a.u. or about 152.1 million km. • Earth at Aphelion (SpaceWeather.com) • Photographic Size Comparison (Anthony Ayiomamitis) |
| 5 | Moon at perigee (closest to Earth) at 4:16 UT (363,726 km; angular size 32.9′). |
| 5 | Mercury 0.2° ENE of Mars (19° from Sun, evening sky) at 23h UT. Mags. 1.7 and 1.8. |
| 6 | Moon near Regulus (evening sky) at 5h UT. • Regulus (Wikipedia) |
| 9 | First Quarter Moon at 10:55 UT. |
| 9 | Saturn at opposition (opposite the Sun) at 17h UT. The ringed planet is at its closest and brightest at Mag. +0.1. Saturn’s rings are spectacular even in a small telescope. • Saturn (Wikipedia) • Opposition (Wikipedia) |
| 10 | Moon near Spica (evening sky) at 0h UT. • Spica (Wikipedia) |
| 13 | Moon near Antares (evening sky) at 11h UT. • Antares (Wikipedia) |
| 13 | Moon near Jupiter (evening sky) at 21h UT. Mag. −2.5. • Jupiter (Wikipedia) |
| 16 | Moon near Saturn (midnight sky) at 8h UT. Mag. 0.1. • Saturn (Wikipedia) |
| 16 | Full Moon at 21:38 UT. • Full Moon Names (Wikipedia) |
| 16 | Partial Eclipse of the Moon from 20:02 to 23:00 UT, mid-eclipse at 21:31 UT. Visible from S. America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. • NASA Lunar Eclipse Page (NASA) • Partial Lunar Eclipse of 2019 July 16 (PDF) (NASA) |
| 21 | Moon at apogee (farthest from Earth) at 0h UT (distance 405,481 km; angular size 29.5′). |
| 21 | Mercury at inferior conjunction with the Sun at 12h UT. Mercury passes into the morning sky. |
| 25 | Last Quarter Moon at 1:19 UT. |
| 27 | Moon near the Pleiades (morning sky) at 8h UT. • The Pleiades (Wikipedia) |
| 28 | Moon near Aldebaran (morning sky) at 1h UT. • Aldebaran (Wikipedia) |
| July 2019 Sky All times Universal Time (UT). | |
