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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○︎Full Moon 10°27' Capricorn19:36

♂︎□︎Mars square Saturn16:09

♂︎Mars enters Cancer03:14

♄︎Saturn stations retrograde13:03

☿︎Mercury stations retrograde20:14

●︎New Moon 25°06' Cancer04:30

♃︎⚹︎Jupiter sextile Pluto22:25

♀︎Venus enters Cancer17:11

♃︎⚹︎Jupiter sextile Uranus00:01

☉︎Sun enters Leo07:23

Alpha Capricornids peak

Southern Delta Aquariids peak

None this month.

○︎Full Moon 10°27' Capricorn02 Jul · 19:36
●︎New Moon 25°06' Cancer18 Jul · 04:30

♂︎Mars enters Cancer11 Jul · 03:14
♀︎Venus enters Cancer21 Jul · 17:11
☉︎Sun enters Leo23 Jul · 07:23

♄︎Saturn stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 29°41' Pisces · opens a 138-day retrograde11 Jul · 13:03
☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 11°25' Leo · opens a 24-day retrograde14 Jul · 20:14

Equinoxes and solstices

None this month.

Meteor showers

·Alpha Capricornids peakup to 5 an hour under a dark sky · comet 169P/NEAT30 Jul
·Southern Delta Aquariids peakup to 25 an hour under a dark sky · comet 96P/Machholz (probable)30 Jul

♂︎□︎Mars square SaturnMars 29°41' Gemini · Saturn 29°41' Pisces10 Jul · 16:09
♃︎⚹︎Jupiter sextile PlutoJupiter 16°32' Cancer · Pluto 16°32' Virgo20 Jul · 22:25
♃︎⚹︎Jupiter sextile UranusJupiter 17°00' Cancer · Uranus 17°00' Virgo23 Jul · 00:01

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.