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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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●︎New Moon 10°43' Taurus12:15

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Eta Aquariids peak

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Eta Lyrids peak

♂︎☍︎Mars opposition Jupiter17:36

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♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction Neptune14:35

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♆︎Neptune stations retrograde00:46

○︎Full Moon 24°53' Scorpio03:36

☽︎Total lunar eclipse 24° Scorpio03:40

♀︎Venus enters Taurus10:57

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☿︎Mercury stations direct07:32

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☉︎Sun enters Gemini11:12

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♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Pluto06:58

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☉︎Annular solar eclipse 9° Gemini04:08

●︎New Moon 9°20' Gemini04:20

  • ☽︎Total lunar eclipse 24° ScorpioMoon 24°55' Scorpio opposite the Sun 24°53' Taurus · south node · 53 minutes of totality16 May · 03:40
  • ☉︎Annular solar eclipse 9° GeminiSun 9°19' Gemini · Moon 9°14' Gemini · north node · 88% of the Sun's disc covered along the track31 May · 04:08

  • ●︎New Moon 10°43' Taurus01 May · 12:15
  • ○︎Full Moon 24°53' Scorpio16 May · 03:36
  • ●︎New Moon 9°20' Gemini31 May · 04:20

  • ♀︎Venus enters Taurus16 May · 10:57
  • ☉︎Sun enters Gemini21 May · 11:12

  • ♆︎Neptune stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 13°11' Aquarius · opens a 160-day retrograde16 May · 00:46
  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 11°07' Taurus · closes the 24-day retrograde20 May · 07:32

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 opposition JupiterMars 9°51' Aquarius · Jupiter 9°51' Leo08 May · 17:36
  • ♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction NeptuneMars 13°11' Aquarius · Neptune 13°11' Aquarius14 May · 14:35
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile PlutoMars 19°00' Aquarius · Pluto 19°00' Sagittarius Rx25 May · 06:58

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.