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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Eta Aquariids peak

●︎New Moon 16°16' Taurus04:47

Eta Lyrids peak

♂︎□︎Mars square Uranus03:03

♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Pluto18:38

☿︎Mercury enters Taurus08:20

♂︎△︎Mars trine Neptune02:22

☉︎Sun enters Gemini10:08

♀︎Venus enters Cancer02:03

○︎Full Moon 1°05' Sagittarius13:17

None this month.

●︎New Moon 16°16' Taurus07 May · 04:47
○︎Full Moon 1°05' Sagittarius22 May · 13:17

☿︎Mercury enters Taurus16 May · 08:20
☉︎Sun enters Gemini21 May · 10:08
♀︎Venus enters Cancer22 May · 02:03

None this month.

Equinoxes and solstices

None this month.

Meteor showers

·Eta Aquariids peakup to 50 an hour under a dark sky · comet 1P/Halley06 May
·Eta Lyrids peakup to 3 an hour under a dark sky · comet C/1983 H1 IRAS-Araki-Alcock08 May

♂︎□︎Mars square UranusMars 14°00' Leo · Uranus 14°00' Scorpio Rx14 May · 03:03
♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile PlutoMars 14°19' Leo · Pluto 14°19' Libra Rx14 May · 18:38
♂︎△︎Mars trine NeptuneMars 17°25' Leo · Neptune 17°25' Sagittarius Rx21 May · 02:22

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.