Here you will find useful observing information about the visible planets,
our Moon and other moons, the Sun, as well as various 'things' celestial.
Among these web pages you will find monthly star maps for either the northern or southern hemisphere that are suitable for printout.
Animated images are utilized to illustrate celestial motions such as orbital motions of the planets, and other solar orbiting objects,
or apparent and real motions along the ecliptic and the local horizon. Regular features include plotting the monthly positions of the
visible planets using heliocentric coordinates; following - moon phases; conjunctions; Sun's apparent, and Earth's real
motion along the ecliptic.
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July Sky Calendar | ||||
01. Moon-Mars Conjunction 02. Moon-Pleiades Conjunction 03. Moon-Jupiter Conjunction 04. Moon at Northernmost Declination: 28.4° N 05. Earth at Aphelion: 1.0167 AU (94,479,989 miles: 152,096,155 km) New Moon 06. Mercury-Beehive Conjunction 07. Moon-Mercury-Beehive Open Star Cluster Conjunction |
08. Jupiter-Aldebaran Conjunction 12. Moon at Apogee: miles 251,207 miles (404,400 km) Moon at Descending Node 13. First Quarter Moon Moon-Spica Conjunction 17. Moon-Antares Conjunction 19. Moon at Southernmost Declination: 28.4° S 20. Mars-Pleiades Conjunction Sun enters the Astronomical sign of Cancer the Crab 21. Full Moon |
22. Mercury at Eastern Elongation: 26.9° E Sun Not Really entering the Astrological sign of Leo the Lion 24. Moon at Perigee: 226,670 miles (364,900 km) Moon-Saturn Conjunction 26. Moon at Ascending Node 27. Delta Aquarid Shower: ZHR = 20 Last Quarter Moon 29. Moon-Pleiades Close Conjunction |
Planet coordinate data for the visible planets and the Sun at 10-day intervals for this month.
Click here to see the
web page showing this information, and also for a larger and easier to read version of the above graphic.