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Day Moonage Phenomenon (JST)
1 Sun 7.1 00:18 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
19:45 Moon is at north most(Decl.:+23o00'.5)
19:49 First quarter moon
2 Moon 8.1
3 Tue 9.1 10h Asteroid 4034 1986 PA is nearest to Earth(0.1465AU)
4 Wed 10.1
5 Thu 11.1 02:24 Longitude of the sun reaches 15 degrees
19h Moon is nearest to the Earth(0.949,364,809km,Dia.:32'45")
6 Fri 12.1 V-Mon is at maximum brightness (Mag:Period 341 days,6.0-13.9)
W-Lyr is at maximum brightness (Mag:Period 198 days,7.3-13.0)
18:33 Occultation of Nu-Vir(Mag:4.2)(time of Tokyo)
7 Sat 13.1 06:04 Mercury passes 09o59'.5 south of Venus
07h Heliocentric latitude of Mercury is most at south
20:10 Algol is at minimum brightness
23:52 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
8 Sun 14.1 01:12 Moon passes equator, to southern hemisphere
12:22 Full Moon
9 Moon 15.1
10 Tue 16.1 Z-Cyg is at maximum brightness (Mag:Period 263 days,7.1-14.7)
21:54 97P/Metcalf Comet Brewington passses perihelion(Period 10.5 years)
11 Wed 17.1
12 Thu 18.1 18:29 Moon passes 08o42'.3 south of Pluto
13 Fri 19.1 10:49 Moon passes 01o19'.7 north of Mars
14 Sat 20.1 S-Peg is at maximum brightness (Mag:Period 319 days,6.9-13.8)
18:34 Mercury is closest to Asteroid Vesta (03o22'.9)
20:31 Moon is at south most(Decl.:-23o07'.5)
23:26 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
15 Sun 21.1 13:04 Moon is closest to Asteroid Ceres (Occultation of Ceres in 00o53'.8)(Europe)
16 Moon 22.1 00:31 Last quarter moon
17 Tue 23.1 01:15 Moon passes 02o40'.2 south of Neptune
07:56 Longitude of the sun reaches 27 degrees
15h Moon is farthest from the Earth (1.052,404,513km,Dia.:29'32")
18 Wed 24.1 08:10 Moon passes 02o58'.5 south of Uranus
19 Thu 25.1
20 Fri 26.1 09:36 Longitude of the sun reaches 30 degrees
21 Sat 27.1 04:47 Moon passes 09o31'.3 south of Venus
17:14 Venus is at apogee(R.A.:00h14.1m)
23:00 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
22 Sun 28.1 07:45 Moon passes equator, to northern hemisphere
14h Lyr meteor shower is at peak( Apr.16-Apr.25)
21:19 Moon is closest to Asteroid Vesta (Occultation of Vesta in 00o09'.5)(Africa)
23 Moon 29.1 14:51 Mercury is at exferrior conjunction(00o30'.0,Mag:-2.2,Dia.:5".1 north of Sun)
19:44 Mercury is closest to Sun (00o26'.4)
21:44 Moon passes 04o28'.3 south of Mercury
24 Tue 0.5 00:26 New Moon
05:03 Moon is closest to Asteroid Juno (01o55'.0)
25 Wed 1.5
26 Thu 2.5 00:41 Moon passes 01o24'.3 south of Saturn
06h Vir meteor shower is at peak( Mar.10-May 15)
21:57 Moon passes 01o49'.0 south of Jupiter
27 Fri 3.5
28 Sat 4.5
29 Sun 5.5 National Holiday in Japan (Midori no hi)
01:15 Moon is at north most(Decl.:+23o15'.0)
20:39 P/1993 Comet X1 Kushida-Muramatsu passses perihelion(Period 7.4 years)
30 Moon 6.5 National holiday in Japan

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