Monthly Calendar
January 2019

  • 1. Waning crescent Moon near Venus
  • New Horizons flyby of Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69
  • 2. Saturn in conjunction with Sun
  • 3. Earth at perihelion: 0.98330 AU (147,099,586 km; 91,403,445 mi.)
  • Waning crescent Moon near Jupiter
  • 4. Quadrantid meteor shower peak
  • 6. New Moon
  • Partial solar eclipse
  • Venus at greatest western elongation
  • 7. Moon at descending node
  • 9. Moon at apogee: 406,116 km (252,349 mi.)
  • 12. Mercury at aphelion
  • Waxing crescent Moon near Mars
  • 14. First quarter Moon
  • 17. Waxing gibbous Moon near Aldebaran
  • 19. The Sun enters the astronomical Sign Capricornus the Sea Goat
  • 20. Moon at ascending node
  • 21. Total lunar eclipse
  • Full Moon
  • Moon at Perigee: 357,345 km (222,044 mi.)
  • 22. Venus–Jupiter conjunction
  • 23. Waning gibbous Moon near Regulus
  • 27. Last quarter Moon
  • 30. Mercury at superior conjunction
  • Waning crescent Moon near Jupiter
  • 31. Waning crescent Moon near Venus

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