Monthly Calendar
August 2018

  • 04 Last Quarter Moon
  • 06 Waning Crescent Moon near Aldebaran
  •      Jupiter at Eastern Quadrature
  • 07 Uranus Begins Retrograde Motion
  • 08 Mercury at Inferior Conjunction
  • 10 Moon at Ascending Node
  •      Moon at Perigee: 222,513 miles (358,100 km)
  • 11 Partial Solar Eclipse
  •      New Moon
  • 12 Perseids Meteor Shower Peak Night Shower
  • 13 Waxing Crescent Moon near Venus
  • 15 Waxing Crescent Moon near Spica
  • 16 Waxing Crescent Moon near Jupiter
  •      Venus at Eastern Elongation
  • 18 First Quarter Moon
  •      Mercury Ends Retrograde Motion
  • 20 Waxing Gibbous Moon near Saturn
  • 23 Moon at Apogee: 252,090 miles (405,700 km)
  •      Moon at Descending Node
  •      Waxing Gibbous Moon near Mars
  • 26 Full Moon
  •      Mercury at Western Elongation
  • 27 Total Lunar Eclipse
  • 28 Mars Ends Retrograde Motion
  • 31 Venus near Spica

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