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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.

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♀︎Venus enters Gemini15:25

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○︎Full Moon 14°31' Libra00:07

☽︎Total lunar eclipse 14° Libra00:09

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♄︎Saturn enters Aries08:49

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☿︎Mercury enters Taurus03:16

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♂︎□︎Mars square Jupiter18:27

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☉︎Partial solar eclipse 28° Aries22:37

●︎New Moon 28°12' Aries22:49

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☉︎Sun enters Taurus19:09

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Lyrids peak

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♄︎△︎Saturn trine Pluto02:49

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♆︎Neptune stations retrograde09:52

♂︎□︎Mars square Neptune18:40

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  • ☽︎Total lunar eclipse 14° LibraMoon 14°32' Libra opposite the Sun 14°30' Aries · north node · 87 minutes of totality04 Apr · 00:09
  • ☉︎Partial solar eclipse 28° AriesSun 28°11' Aries · Moon 28°05' Aries · south node · partial everywhere it is seen17 Apr · 22:37

  • ○︎Full Moon 14°31' Libra04 Apr · 00:07
  • ●︎New Moon 28°12' Aries17 Apr · 22:49

  • ♀︎Venus enters Gemini03 Apr · 15:25
  • ♄︎Saturn enters Aries07 Apr · 08:49
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Taurus08 Apr · 03:16
  • ☉︎Sun enters Taurus19 Apr · 19:09

  • ♆︎Neptune stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 27°45' Capricorn · opens a 160-day retrograde29 Apr · 09:52

Equinoxes and solstices

None this month.

Meteor showers

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

  • ♂︎□︎Mars square JupiterMars 17°06' Aries · Jupiter 17°06' Capricorn15 Apr · 18:27
  • ♄︎△︎Saturn trine PlutoSaturn 2°23' Aries · Pluto 2°23' Sagittarius Rx28 Apr · 02:49
  • ♂︎□︎Mars square NeptuneMars 27°45' Aries · Neptune 27°45' Capricorn Rx29 Apr · 18:40

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.