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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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♂︎□︎Mars square Neptune14:26

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♀︎Venus enters Cancer23:23

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Perseids peak

●︎New Moon 20°00' Leo12:31

☿︎Mercury enters Virgo17:28

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☉︎Sun enters Virgo21:53

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♂︎Mars stations retrograde14:40

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○︎Full Moon 4°23' Pisces10:56

☽︎Partial lunar eclipse 4° Pisces11:04

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♄︎Saturn stations direct10:06

☿︎Mercury enters Libra20:25

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  • ☽︎Partial lunar eclipse 4° PiscesMoon 4°28' Pisces opposite the Sun 4°23' Virgo · north node · 22% of the Moon's disc in the umbra27 Aug · 11:04

  • ●︎New Moon 20°00' Leo12 Aug · 12:31
  • ○︎Full Moon 4°23' Pisces27 Aug · 10:56

  • ♀︎Venus enters Cancer06 Aug · 23:23
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Virgo12 Aug · 17:28
  • ☉︎Sun enters Virgo22 Aug · 21:53
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Libra30 Aug · 20:25

  • ♂︎Mars stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 11°27' Aries · opens a 63-day retrograde26 Aug · 14:40
  • ♄︎Saturn stations directstandstill at 25°55' Sagittarius · closes the 141-day retrograde30 Aug · 10:06

Equinoxes and solstices

None this month.

Meteor showers

  • ·Perseids peakup to 100 an hour under a dark sky · comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle12 Aug

  • ♂︎□︎Mars square NeptuneMars 7°57' Aries · Neptune 7°57' Capricorn Rx03 Aug · 14:26

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.