4 Moon, Uranus and the Pleiades within 5.0° circle at 1h UT (evening sky). Mag. 5.6. Near Full Moon. 4 Moon near the Pleiades at 4h UT (evening sky). 4 Moon at perigee (closest to Earth) at 11:11 UT (distance 356,963km; angular size 33.5'). 4 Full Moon at 23:14 UT. Supermoon.

2 Venus 3.5° NNE of Spica at 8h UT (16° from Sun, morning sky). Mag −3.9. 2 Moon near Saturn at 9h UT (evening sky). Mag. 0.9. 5 Southern Taurid meteor shower peaks. Active from Sept 23 to Dec 8. Associated with Comet 2P/Encke. • Taurids (Wikipedia) • Southern

2 Dwarf planet 1 Ceres at opposition at 4h UT. Mag. 7.6. 3 Mercury 1.7° NNE of Spica at 0h UT (14° from Sun, evening sky). Mags. −0.4 and 1.0. 4 International Observe the Moon Night Join the global celebration: moon.nasa.gov/observe 6 Moon near Saturn

1 Venus 1.2° South of Beehive Cluster (M44) at 4h UT (morning sky). Mag. −4.0. 7 Total Lunar Eclipse begins at 17:31 UT and ends at 18:53 UT. Greatest eclipse at 18:12 UT. Partial phases begin at 16:27 UT and end at 19:56 UT. During totality the Moon will appear red- orange in color

1 First Quarter Moon at 12:40 UT. 1 Moon at apogee (farthest from Earth) at 21h UT (distance 404,161km; angular size 29.6'). 4 Moon near Antares at 0h UT (evening sky). Occultation visible from Antarctica, southern Argentina, southern Chile and Falkland Islands. • Lunar occultation