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Volume 22 -- Issue 10
Sky Watch Calendar -- October 2016
01.
New Moon
03.
Waxing Crescent Moon
Near
Venus
Astronomy Week -
October 3-9
04.
Moon at
Apogee
- 406,096 km
World Space Week
- October 4-10
05.
Waxing Crescent Moon
Near
Saturn
07.
Waxing Crescent Moon
Near
Mars
08.
Fall
Astronomy Day
09.
First Quarter Moon
11.
Jupiter
Near
Mercury
12.
Waxing Crescent Moon
Near
Neptune
13.
Moon at
Descending Node
15.
Waxing Gibbous Moon
Near
Uranus
Uranus at
Opposition
16.
Full Moon
Moon at
Perigee
- 357,861 km
18.
Waning Gibbous Moon Very
Near
Aldebaran
21.
Ceres at
Opposition
22.
Last Quarter Moon
The Sun
Does Not
Enter the Astrological Sign of
Scorpio
23.
Waning Crescent Moon
Near
Beehive Cluster
24.
Waning Crescent Moon
Passes
Regulus
26.
Moon at
Acscending Node
27.
Mercury at
Superior Conjunction
28.
Thin Waning Crescent Moon
Near Jupiter
29.
Mars at
perihelion
30.
New Moon
Sun
Does
Enter the Astronomical
Sign of
Virgo
31.
Moon at
Apogee
- 406,662 km
2016 Moon Phases from
NASA GSFC
and
LRO
(These are videos on YouTube)
Northern Hemisphere
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Any Day-Any Hour
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Southern Hemisphere