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Volume 22 -- Issue 1
Sky Watch Calendar -- January 2016
01.
Comet Catalina (C/2013 US10) near
Arcturus
02.
Earth at
Perihelion
- 0.9833 AU
(147,100,176 km)
Last Quarter Moon
Moon at
Apogee
- 404,277 km
03.
Waning Crescent Moon near
Spica and Mars
Martian
Summer Solstice
04.
Quadrantid
Meteor Shower
Moon at Ascending
Node
05.
Mercury Begins Retrograde Motion
Dwarf Planet Pluto at
Solar Conjunction
06.
Thin Waning Crescent Moon
near
Venus and Saturn
07.
Very Thin Waning Crescent Moon near
Venus and Saturn
Uranus at
East Quadrature
08.
Jupiter Begins Retrograde Motion
10.
New Moon
11.
Very Thin Waxing Crescent Moon Near
Dwarf Planet Ceres
12-13.
Waxing Crescent Moon Passes
Neptune
14.
Mercury at
Inferior Conjunction
Moon at
Descending Node
15.
Waxing Crescent Moon Near
Uranus
Moon at
Perigee
- 369, 619 (km)
16.
First Quarter Moon
Cassini
Flyby
19.
First Quarter Moon Near
Aldebaran
20.
Sun Enters the Astronomical Sign of
Capricorn
Sun
Does Not
Enter the Astrological Sign of
Aquarius
22.
Waxing Gibbous Moon Near
Procyon
25.
Full Moon
Full Moon Near
Regulus
Comet Catalina
(C/2013 US 10) at Opposition
Mercury Ends Retrograde Motion
27.
Waning Gibbous Moon Near
Procyon
Moon at
Ascending Node
30.
Moon at
Spica
Moon at
Apogee
- 404,553 km
2016 Moon Phases from
NASA GSFC
and
LRO
(These are videos on YouTube)
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