August 2000

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Day		Moonage	Phenomenon (JST)
1	Tue	1.0	R-Vul is at maximum brightness (Mag:7.0-14.3,Period 137 days)
			10:36 Moon passes 01o04'.9 north of Venus(Occultation of Venus in Canada)
			15h Alpha-Cap meteor shower is at peak(Jul.15-Aug.25)
			23:20 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
2	Wed	2.0
3	Thu	3.0	18h Heliocentric latitude of Venus is most at north
4	Fri	4.0	21:26 Moon passes equator, to southern hemisphere
5	Sat	5.0	02:45 Moon is closest to Asteroid Ceres (01o35'.8)
6	Sun	6.0	Acient Tanabata
			Iota-Aqr (south) meteor shower is at peak(Jul.25-Aug.20)
7	Moon	7.0	02:47 Algol is at minimum brightness
			10:02 First quarter moon
			14:03 Longitude of the sun reaches 135 degrees
8	Tue	8.0	22:55 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
9	Wed	9.0	13:47 Moon passes 07o26'.1 south of Pluto
			18:22 Asteroid Juno is at opposition(Mag:8.7)
			23:35 Algol is at minimum brightness
10	Thu	10.0	21:47 Mars is closest to Mercury (00o04'.9)
			21:59 Mercury passes 00o04'.8 south of Mars
11	Fri	11.0	Delta-Aqr (north) meteor shower is at peak(Jul.25-Aug.20)
			20:08 Uranus is at opposition(Mag:5.7,Dia.:03".7)
12	Sat	12.0	R-And is at maximum brightness (Mag:5.8-14.9,Period 409 days)
			04:15 Moon is at south most(Decl.:-21o45'.4)
			07h Moon is farthest from the Earth 1.055(405,650km,Dia.:29'28")
			19:26 Moon is closest to Asteroid Vesta (04o27'.8)
			22h Per meteor shower is at peak(Jul.20-Aug.20)
13	Sun	13.0
14	Moon	14.0	01:43 Mon passes 01o08'.6 south of Neptune
			10:01 Neptune(Mag:7.8) is closest to Pi-Cap(Mag:5.3)(00o41'.5)
			17h Asteroid 4486 Mithra is closest to Earth(0.0465AU)
15	Tue	15.0	05:24 Moon passes 01o26'.6 south of Uranus
			14:13 Full Moon
			22:30 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
16	Wed	16.0	R-Ari is at maximum brightness (Mag:7.4-13.7,Period 187 days)
17	Thu	17.0
18	Fri	18.0
19	Sat	19.0	02:10 Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy5 passses perihelion(Period 8.69 years)
			13:01 Moon passes equator, to northern hemisphere
			14:25 Saturn is most at west(Mag:0.2,Dia.:18".1,Ring:40".9)
			18h Cyg meteor shower is at peak(Aug.10-Aug.25)
20	Sun	20.0	VirU is at maximum brightness (Mag:7.4-13.5,Period 207 days)
			02h Iota-Aqr (north) meteor shower is at peak(Jul.25-Aug.25)
			07h Heliocentric latitude of Mercury is most at north
21	Moon	21.0	18:52 Mercury is at exferrior conjunction(01o52'.8,Mag:-1.9,Dia.:04".9 north of Sun)
22	Tue	22.0	10:26 Mercury is closest to Sun (01o45'.6)
			22:05 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
23	Wed	23.0	03:51 Last quarter moon
			04:12 Moon passes 02o06'.1 south of Saturn
			04:49 Longitude of the sun reaches 150 degrees
			04:58 Pluto is at apogee(R.A.:16h40m.5)
			18:48 Moon passes 02o51'.9 south of Jupiter
24	Thu	24.0
25	Fri	25.0
26	Sat	26.0	02:45 Moon is at north most(Decl.:+21o48'.6)
27	Sun	27.0	23h Moon is nearest to the Earth 0.941(361,907km,Dia.:33'01")
28	Moon	28.0	12:00 Moon passes 00o55'.4 north of Mars(Occultation of Mars in Siberia)
29	Tue	29.0	19:19 New Moon
			20:06 Jupiter is most at west(Mag:-2.4,Dia.:39".6)
			21:40 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
30	Wed	0.7	T-UMa is at maximum brightness (Mag:6.6-13.5,Period 257 days)
			01:15 Algol is at minimum brightness
			06:35 Moon passes 02o42'.8 north of Mercury
31	Thu	1.7	Nihyakutoka
			R-Aur is at maximum brightness (Mag:6.7-13.9,Period 458 days)
			07:32 Moon passes 03o50'.3 north of Venus

Special Thanks to Shirakawa Astronomical Observatory