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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
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and
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