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Volume 23 -- Issue 5
Sky Watch Calendar -- May 2017
01.
Mars and Saturn at Heliocentric Opposition
02.
Mercury Ends Retrograde Motion
03.
First Quarter Moon
Moon near Regulus
Mars near Aldebaran
04.
Moon at Ascending Node
May the 4th be With Y'all
05.
National Astronaut Day
National Space Day
Mars' Spring Equinox
07.
Moon near Jupiter
Cassini Distant Fllyby of Titan
08.
Moon near Spica
10.
Full Moon
12.
Moon at Apogee - 406,210 km
Moon near Antares
14.
Sun Does Enter the Astronomical
   Sign of Taurus
Moon near Saturn
17.
Mercury at Greatest West Elongation
19.
Last Quarter Moon
Moon at Descending Node
Juno Spacecraft 5th Jupiter Flyby
20.
The Sun Does Not
   Enter the Astrological Sign of Gemini
22.
Moon near Venus
24.
Cassini Distant Fllyby of Titan
25.
New Moon
Towel Day - Don't Panic!
26.
Moon at Perigee - 357.207 km
Moon near Mars
29.
Moon near Beehive Cluster
30-31.
Moon Passes Regulus
31.
Moon at Ascending Node