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Volume 22 -- Issue 8
Sky Watch Calendar -- August 2016
02.
New Moon
04.
Thin Crescent Moon Near Mercury
05.
Thin Crescent Moon Near Jupiter
Moon at Aescending Node
7-8.
Moon Passes Spica
9.
Mars at heliocentric opposition with Pluto
10.
First Quarter Moon
Sun Does Enter the Astronomical
   Sign of Leo
Moon at Apogee - 404,262 km
Cassini Spacecraft Flyby of Titan
11.
Moon Is Passing Mars and Saturn
12.
Perseid Meteor Shower Peak
13.
Saturn Ends Retrograde Motion
16.
Mercury at East Elongation
18.
Full Moon
Moon Is Near Neptune
19.
Full Moon Near Neptune
Moon at Descending Node
22.
Moon at Perigee - 367,050 km
Moon Is Near Uranus
Sun Does Not Enter the Astrological
   Sign of Virgo
24.
Mars and Saturn Near Antares
25.
Last Quarter Moon
Moon Very Near Aldebaran
27.
Waning Crescent Moon Near M-35
28.
Triple Conjunction Between
   Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter
29.
Waning Crescent Moon Near M-44
2016 Moon Phases from NASA GSFC and LRO

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