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Day Moonage Phenomenon (JST)
1 Fri 9.0 16:38 Moon passes equator, to southern hemisphere
2 Sat 10.0 20:25 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
3 Sun 11.0 15:56 Asteroid Pallas is at opposition(Mag:9.2)
4 Moon 12.0 14:23 Mercury is at apogee(R.A.:05h59.8m)
5 Tue 13.0 23:54 Longitude of the sun reaches 75 degrees
6 Wed 14.0 06:21 Comet 51P/Harrington passses perihelion(Period 6.8 years)
02:21 Pluto is at opposition(Mag:13.8,Dia.:0".14)
09:37 Moon passes 08o51'.4 south of Pluto
10:39 Full Moon
7 Thu 15.0 01:19 Algol is at minimum brightness
04:20 Moon passes 03o55'.3 north of Mars
8 Fri 16.0 13:41 Venus is at western greatest elongation(45o50'.3,Mag:-4.3,Dia.:23".8)
13:58 Moon is at south most(Decl.:-23o24'.9)
9 Sat 17.0 S-Cep is at maximum brightness (Mag:Period 486 days,7.4-12.9)
08:30 Moon is closest to Asteroid Ceres(03o51'.9)
19:35 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
10 Sun 18.0 16:54 Moon passes 03o00'.1 south of Neptune
11 Moon 19.0 05:22 Longitude of the sun reaches 80 degrees
12 Tue 20.0 01:02 Moon passes 03o20'.1 south of Uranus
05h Moon is farthest from the Earth(1.053, 404,632km,Dia.:29'32")
13 Wed 21.0 23:21 Mars is at opposition(Mag:-2.3,Dia.:20".5)
14 Thu 22.0 R-CMi is at maximum brightness (Mag:Period 338 days,7.2-11.6)
12:28 Last quarter moon
22:09 Jupiter is at conjunction(00o19'.1,Mag:-1.9,Dia.:32".2 south of Sun)
15 Fri 23.0
16 Sat 24.0 01:56 Moon passes equator, to northern hemisphere
14:30 Mercury is closest to Sun (03o32'.1)
17 Sun 25.0 00:21 Mercury is at inferrior conjunction(03o35'.3,Mag:5.3,Dia.:12".2 south of Sun)
16:58 Jupiter is closest to Mercury (03o31'.3)
18 Moon 26.0 Comet 23:27 86P/Wild3 passses perihelion(Period 6.9 years)
07:29 Moon passes 01o41'.8 south of Venus
12:42 Moon is closest to Venus (01o19'.5)
23:56 Mercury passes 03o39'.5 south of Jupiter
19 Tue 27.0 20:31 C/2000 CT54 Comet LINEAR passses perihelion
20 Wed 28.0 06:37 Moon passes 00o53'.1 south of Saturn(Occultation of Saturn)(South Pacific Ocean)
21 Thu 29.0 R-Cam is at maximum brightness (Mag:Period 270 days,7.0-14.4)
09:25 Moon passes 03o06'.8 north of Mercury
12:22 Moon passes 00o44'.0 south of Jupiter(Occultation of Jupiter)(Australia)
16:38 Longitude of the sun reaches 90 degrees
20:58 New Moon(Total solar eclipse in Africa)
22 Fri 0.6 02:01 Venus is closest to Asteroid Vesta (02o46'.6)
07:56 Mars is closest to Earth(0.4501667AU,67,340,000km,Mag:-2.3,Dia.:20".79)
16:49 Moon is at north most(Decl.:+23o25'.0)
23 Sat 1.6 03:57 Beta-Lyr is at minimum brightness
24 Sun 2.6 02h Moon is nearest to the Earth(0.945,363,134km,Dia.:32'54")
25 Moon 3.6
26 Tue 4.6 R-Aqr is at maximum brightness (Mag:Period 386 days,5.8-12.4)
01:05 Moon passes equator, to northern hemisphere
27 Wed 5.6 03:01 Algol is at minimum brightness
28 Thu 6.6 01:54 P/(1994 Comet A1)Kushida passses perihelion(Period 7.6 years)
12:20 First quarter moon
15:51 Mercury is at apogee(R.A.:05h23.2m)
22:16 Moon passes equator, to southern hemisphere
29 Fri 7.6
30 Sat 8.6

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