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Volume 20 -- Issue 5
Sky Watch Calendar -- May 2014
01.
Thin Waxing Crescent
Moon
Near Aldebaran
04.
Waxing Crescent
Moon
Near Jupiter
Space Day
05.
Astronomy Week
(May 5-11)
06.
Moon at
Apogee
- (404,318 km)
Comet 209P Linear at Perihelion
07.
First Quarter Moon
Moon Near
Regulus
10.
Saturn at
Opposition
Waxing Gibbous
Moon
Near Mars
Astronomy Day
12.
Moon at
Ascending Node
Waxing Gibbous
Moon
Near Spica
13.
Regulus-Asteroid 2 Pallas
Conjunction
Waxing Gibbous
Moon
Near Saturn
14.
Full Moon
Sun Enters Astronomical
Sign of
Taurus
15.
Venus
Near
Uranus
Waning Gibbous
Moon
Near Antares
17.
Cassini
Flyby of Titan
18.
Moon at
Perigee
- (367,102 km)
21.
Last Quarter Moon
Mars Ends
Retrograde Motion
Sun Enters astrological Sign of
Gemini
25.
Mercury at Greatest East
Elongation
(23
o
)
Waning Crescent
Moon
Near Saturn
Moon at
Descending Node
28.
New Moon
Neptune at West
Quadrature
31.
Waxing Crescent
Moon
Near Jupiter