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Celestial Calendar

About Celestial Calendar

Eclipses, New and Full Moons, ingresses, stations, the equinoxes and solstices, meteor showers and exact outer-planet aspects, month by month, from the same engine as the sky.

‹ March 1978

April 1978

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1

☿︎Mercury stations retrograde16:19

2

♀︎Venus enters Taurus21:13

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4
5
6
7

☉︎Partial solar eclipse 17° Aries15:02

●︎New Moon 17°27' Aries15:15

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10

♂︎Mars enters Leo18:49

11
12

♃︎Jupiter enters Cancer00:11

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14
15
16
17
18
19
20

☉︎Sun enters Taurus10:49

21
22

Lyrids peak

23

○︎Full Moon 2°39' Scorpio04:11

24
25

☿︎Mercury stations direct06:48

♄︎Saturn stations direct12:16

26
27

♀︎Venus enters Gemini07:53

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29
30

  • ☉︎Partial solar eclipse 17° AriesSun 17°26' Aries · Moon 17°19' Aries · south node · partial everywhere it is seen07 Apr · 15:02

  • ●︎New Moon 17°27' Aries07 Apr · 15:15
  • ○︎Full Moon 2°39' Scorpio23 Apr · 04:11

  • ♀︎Venus enters Taurus02 Apr · 21:13
  • ♂︎Mars enters Leo10 Apr · 18:49
  • ♃︎Jupiter enters Cancer12 Apr · 00:11
  • ☉︎Sun enters Taurus20 Apr · 10:49
  • ♀︎Venus enters Gemini27 Apr · 07:53

  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 26°07' Aries · opens a 24-day retrograde01 Apr · 16:19
  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 14°51' Aries · closes the 24-day retrograde25 Apr · 06:48
  • ♄︎Saturn stations directstandstill at 23°39' Leo · closes the 135-day retrograde25 Apr · 12:16

Equinoxes and solstices

None this month.

Meteor showers

  • ·Lyrids peakup to 18 an hour under a dark sky · comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher22 Apr

None this month.

All times Universal Time (UT), solved to the minute. Eclipse rows give the kind seen at the best-placed point on Earth and the instant of greatest eclipse; where you stand decides what you see, and a partial or penumbral eclipse is listed on the same terms as a total one. An ingress is the crossing itself; a station is the standstill, as on the retrograde calendar; the equinoxes and solstices are the Sun's cardinal ingresses; meteor peaks are dates from the shower catalogue, not instants; an outer-planet aspect is listed at each exact pass, so a retrograde series is several rows. The Moon's signs and void-of-course windows are on the moon calendar, and every planet's daily position on the ephemeris table. Nothing here is read against a chart: for your own dates see the timeline.