Monthly Calendar
October 2018

• 01. NASA’s 60th Anniversary (1958)
• 02. Last Quarter Moon
• 04. Moon at Ascending Node
•      Waning Crescent Moon near Beehive Star Cluster
•      World Space Week (October 4-10)
• 05. Waning Crescent Moon near Regulus
•      Moon at Perigee: 227,668 miles (366,396 km)
• 09. New Moon
• 11. Waxing Crescent Moon near Jupiter
• 15. Waxing Crescent Moon near Saturn
• 16. Waxing Crescent Moon near Mercury
•      First Quarter Moon
•      Mars Winter Solstice
• 17. Moon at Descending Node
•      Moon at Apogee: 251,175 miles (404,227 km)
• 18. Waxing Gibbous Moon near Mars
• 20. International Observe the Moon Night
• 21. Orionid Meteor Shower
• 23. Sun Not Really in astrological sign of Scorpius
• 24. Uranus at Opposition
•      Full Moon
• 26. Venus at Inferior Conjunction
• 27. Aldebaran 1.6°S of Moon
• 28. European Summer Time Ends
• 29. Mercury 3.1° of Jupiter
• 31. Moon at Ascending Node
•      Sun Enters Astronomical Sign of Libra
•      Waning Gibbous Moon near Beehive Star Cluster
•      Last Quarter Moon
•      Moon at Perigee: 230,032 miles (370,201 km)