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.
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♂︎△︎Mars trine Pluto13:52
○︎Full Moon 16°41' Aquarius04:40
Perseids peak
☿︎Mercury stations retrograde06:43
♂︎Mars enters Sagittarius10:59
☉︎Sun enters Virgo01:08
♀︎Venus stations direct09:31
●︎New Moon 0°58' Virgo01:17
☉︎Total solar eclipse 0° Virgo01:20
- ☉︎Total solar eclipse 0° VirgoSun 0°58' Virgo · Moon 0°59' Virgo · south node · the Sun fully covered along the shadow's track24 Aug · 01:20
- ○︎Full Moon 16°41' Aquarius09 Aug · 04:40
- ●︎New Moon 0°58' Virgo24 Aug · 01:17
- ♂︎Mars enters Sagittarius14 Aug · 10:59
- ☉︎Sun enters Virgo23 Aug · 01:08
- ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 12°44' Virgo · opens a 23-day retrograde14 Aug · 06:43
- ♀︎Venus stations directstandstill at 1°19' Leo · closes the 43-day retrograde23 Aug · 09:31
Equinoxes and solstices
None this month.
Meteor showers
- ·Perseids peakup to 100 an hour under a dark sky · comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle12 Aug
- ♂︎△︎Mars trine PlutoMars 26°17' Scorpio · Pluto 26°17' Pisces Rx06 Aug · 13:52
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.