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Day Moonage Phenomenon (JST)
1 Mon 4.4 `Nihyaku-To ka' (210th day from Risshun, Feb. 4)
R-Hya is its maximum brightness (Mag: 3.5-10.9, Period: 389 days)
04h Moon is at the nearest from the Earth (0.957, 367,921km, Dia.: 32'29")
05:00 Moon approaches closest to Asteroid Vesta (02°42')
2 Tue 5.4
3 Wed 6.4 21:34 First quarter moon
4 Thu 7.4 10:39 Moon passes 11°17.5' south of Pluto
5 Fri 8.4 T-Her is its maximum brightness (Mag: 6.8-13.7, Period: 165 days)
02:25 Algol is its minimum brightness
20:51 Moon is at the southernmost (Decl.: -26°45.0')
6 Sat 9.4 T-Cep is its maximum brightness (Mag: 5.2-11.3, Period: 388 days)
7 Sun 10.4 04:14 λ-Tau is its minimum brightness
12:01 Mercury passes 06°06.9' south of Venus
23:13 Algol is its minimum brightness
8 Mon 11.4 U-UMi is its maximum brightness (Mag: 7.1-13.0, Period: 331 days)
04:10 Moon passes 05°05.6' south of Neptune
10:20 `Hakuro' (Longitude of the sun reaches 165 degrees)
9 Tue 12.4 09:19 Pluto is at the eastern quadrature (Mag: 13.9, Dia.: 00.1")
14:35 Moon passes 04°31.2' south of Uranus
21:49 Moon passes 01°14.5' north of Mars (occultation of Mars around Siberia)
10 Wed 13.4 15:54 Mercury is at the inferior conjunction (04°01.4' south of Sun, Mag: 4.8, Dia.: 10.6")
11 Thu 14.4 `Juugo ya'
01:36 Full Moon
03:06 λ-Tau is its minimum brightness
16:09 Mercury approaches closest to Sun (03°30.1')
12 Fri 15.4 16:28 Asteroid Ceres (Mag: 8.8) approaches closest to Saturn (Mag: 0.1) (00°51.3')
16:54 Moon passes the equator, to the northern hemisphere
13 Sat 16.4
14 Sun 17.4
15 Mon 18.4 National holiday in Japan (`Keirou no hi')
R-Cet is its maximum brightness (Mag: 7.2-14.3, Period: 166 days)
01:58 λ-Tau is its minimum brightness
16 Tue 19.4 18h Moon is at the farthest from the Earth (1.053, 404,707km, Dia.: 29'32")
17 Wed 20.4 05h Asteroid (7336) Saunders approaches closest to the Earth (0.19030AU)
18 Thu 21.4 00h Asteroid (22771) 1999 CU3 approaches closest to the Earth (0.06515AU)
19 Fri 22.4 00:50 λ-Tau is its minimum brightness
04:03 Last quarter moon
16:19 Comet C/2002 J5 (LINEAR) passes the perihelion
22:07 Mercury is at the apogee (R.A.: 10h53.1m)
20 Sat 23.4 Higan no iri
04:56 Moon is at the northernmost (Decl.: +26°52.5')
12:03 Moon passes 04°39.7' north of Saturn
16:07 Moon approaches closest to Asteroid Ceres (03°35.7')
16:44 Comet C/2002 O7 (LINEAR) passes the perihelion
21 Sun 24.4 R-Leo is its maximum brightness (Mag: 4.4-11.3, Period: 310 days)
22 Mon 25.4 23:41 λ-Tau is its minimum brightness
23 Tue 26.4 National holiday in Japan (`Shuubun no hi')
19:47 `Shuubun' (Autumnal Equinox, Longitude of the sun reaches 180 degrees)
24 Wed 27.4 U-Cet is its maximum brightness (Mag: 6.8-13.4, Period: 235 days)
R-Com is its maximum brightness (Mag: 7.1-14.6, Period: 363 days)
12:30 Moon passes 04°26.4' north of Jupiter
25 Thu 28.4 01:33 Moon passes 04°37.6' north of Mercury
04:05 Algol is its minimum brightness
26 Fri 29.4 07:31 Comet 81P/Wild2 (Period: 6.4 years) passes the perihelion
12:09 New Moon
13h Asteroid (2063) Bacchus approaches closest to the Earth (0.12170AU)
21:15 Moon passes the equator, to the southern hemisphere
22:33 λ-Tau is its minimum brightness
27 Sat 1.0 05:11 Moon passes 02°17.3' north of Venus
08:44 Mercury is at the western greatest elongation (17°51.8', Mag: -0.4, Dia.: 07.1")
28 Sun 2.0 00:54 Algol is its minimum brightness
15h Moon is at the nearest from the Earth (0.944, 362,835km, Dia.: 32'56")
29 Mon 3.0 11:14 Moon approaches closest to Asteroid Vesta (03°03.9')
23:04 Mars is at the apogee (R.A.: 22h15.8m)
30 Tue 4.0 13:30 Occultation of δ-Sco (Mag: 2.5) (immersion time at Tokyo)
21:42 Algol is its minimum brightness

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