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Volume 21 -- Issue 1
Sky Watch Calendar -- January 2015
01. Waxing Gibbous Moon Near
   Aldebaran and the Hyades
03. Uranus at East Quadrature
04. Earth at Perihelion (0.983 AU)
Quadrantid Meteor Shower
05. Full Moon
Moon Near Gemini Twins
07. Waning Gibbous Moon
   Near Jupiter
08. Waning Gibbous Moon
   Near Regulus
09. Moon at Apogee - (405,408 km)
11. Venus and Mercury very Close
Cassini Titan Flyby
Mars Winter Solstice
12. Moon At Ascending Node
New Horizons Pluto Approach Phase
13. Last Quarter Moon
Moon Near Spica
Dawn Mission Ceres Imaging Phase Begins
14. Mercury at Eastern Elongation
Comet Finlay Closest to Earth (1.392 AU)
16. Waning Crescent Moon
   Near Saturn
20. New Moon
Sun Enters the Astronomical
   Sign of Capricornus
Sun Does Not Enter the Astrological Sign of Aquarius
21. Moon at Perigee - (359,645 km)
Waxing Crescent Moon
   Near Venus
22. Waxing Crescent Moon
   Near Mars and Neptune
25. Moon At Descending Node
Moon Occultation of Uranus
27. First Quarter Moon
29. Waxing Gibbous Moon
   Near Aldebaran
Asteroid Juno at Opposition
30. Mercury at Inferior Conjunction

2015 Moon Phases from NASA GSFC and LRO

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