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Day Moonage Phenomenon (JST)
1 Mon 15.0 12:58 Full Moon
19:22 Moon passes 05o05'.4 north of Jupiter
23:05 Longitude of the sun reaches 100 degrees
2 Tue 16.0 07:-- Moon is near to the Earth most(357,943km,Dia.:33'22")
08:32 Venus is at apogee(R.A.:04h43.4m)
14:-- Comet 22P/Kopff passses perihelion(Period 6.46 years)
17:23 Moon passes 04o26.1' north of Neptune
3 Wed 17.0 04:34 Moon passes 05o24'.0 north of Uranus
4 Thu 18.0 20:50 Jupiter is at opposition(Mag:-2.7,Dia.:47".0)
5 Fri 19.0 03:07 Occultation of Theta-Aqr(Mag:4.3)(time of Tokyo)
6 Sat 20.0 01:-- Comet 22P/Kopff is brightest (Mag:6.9)
04:14 Earth passses aphelion(1.0167174AU)
18:18 Moon passes equator, to northern hemisphere
18:58 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
7 Sun 21.0 Tanabata
05:00 Longitude of the sun reaches 105 degrees
14:32 Moon passes 02o55'.6 north of Saturn
17:01 Moon is closest to asteroid Juno (01o22'.9)
8 Mon 22.0 02:45 Algol is at minimum brightness
03:55 Last quarter moon
11:-- Comet 22P/Kopff is closet to the Earth(0.5651AU)
10 Wed 24.0 23:33 Algol is at minimum brightness
11 Thu 25.0 13:56 Mercury is at exferrior conjunction(01o27'.1 north of Sun)
15:42 Mercury is closest to Sun (01o26'.9)
12 Fri 26.0 17:39 Moon passes 00o22'.4 north of Venus(Occultation of Venus in Europe)
13 Sat 27.0 08:07 Moon passes 04o56'.6 south of Mars
18:33 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
20:00 Moon is at north most(Decl.:+18o33'.9)
V-Peg is at maximum brightness (Period 302 days,Mag:7.0-15.0)
16 Tue 0.4 01:15 New Moon
17:04 Moon passes 06o37'.6 south of Mercury
20:-- Heliocentric latitude of Mercury is most at south
23:-- Moon is far from the Earth most(406,592km,Dia.:29'24")
17 Wed 1.4 06:-- Comet 125P/Spacewatch passses perihelion(Period 5.59 years)
17:59 Venus is brightest (Mag:-4.5,Dia.:37".0)
19 Fri 3.4 00:39 Neptune is at opposition(Mag:7.8,Dia.:2".3)
18:54 Longitude of the sun reaches 117 degrees
U-Her is at maximum brightness (Period 406 days,Mag:6.4-13.4)
20 Sat 4.4 National holiday in Japan (Umi no hi)
09:14 Saturn is at apogee(R.A.:00h30.9m)
21 Sun 5.4 09:54 Moon passes equator, to southern hemisphere
S-Her is at maximum brightness (Period 307 days,Mag:6.4-13.8)
22 Mon 6.4 22:19 Longitude of the sun reaches 120 degrees
23 Tue 7.4 20:-- The Earth passes the orbital plane of Comet 22P/Kopff
T-Col is at maximum brightness (Period 226 days,Mag:6.6-12.7)
24 Wed 8.4 02:49 First quarter moon
03:23 Lambda-Tau is at minimum brightness
19:-- Comet 65P/Gunn passses perihelion(Period 6.84 years)
RT-Cyg is at maximum brightness (Period 190 days,Mag:6.0-13.1)
25 Thu 9.4 06:21 Moon is closest with asteroid Vesta (01o43'.2)
19:16 Uranus is at opposition(Mag:5.7,Dia.:3".7)
26 Fri 10.4 09:45 Moon is closest to asteroid Ceres (03o57'.9)
10:15 Moon passes 09o20'.1 south of Pluto
19:27 Occultation of Chi-Oph(Mag:4.9)(time of Tokyo)
28 Sun 12.4 02:15 Lambda-Tau is at minimum brightness
03:52 Moon is at south most(Decl.:-18o28'.9)
04:-- Asteroid Vesta passses perihelion
29 Mon 13.4 00:41 Moon passes 05o11'.6 north of Jupiter
09:-- Delta-Aqr (south) meteor shower is at peak (Span:Jul. 21-last August)
T-Dra is at maximum brightness (Period 422 days,Mag:7.2-13.5)
30 Tue 14.4 02:56 Moon passes 04o26'.4 north of Neptune
13:29 Moon passes 05o23'.6 north of Uranus
17:-- Moon is near to the Earth most(356,955km,Dia.:33'28")
19:35 Full Moon
S-UMa is at maximum brightness (Period 226 days,Mag:7.1-12.7)
31 Wed 15.4 01:13 Algol is at minimum brightness

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