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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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○︎Full Moon 16°01' Scorpio03:35

Eta Aquariids peak

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Eta Lyrids peak

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☿︎Mercury enters Taurus05:14

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♀︎Venus stations retrograde14:32

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♂︎△︎Mars trine Pluto16:26

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☉︎Sun enters Gemini15:15

●︎New Moon 0°20' Gemini23:47

☉︎Annular solar eclipse 0° Gemini23:52

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☿︎Mercury enters Gemini11:11

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  • ☉︎Annular solar eclipse 0° GeminiSun 0°20' Gemini · Moon 0°23' Gemini · south node · 89% of the Sun's disc covered along the track20 May · 23:52

  • ○︎Full Moon 16°01' Scorpio06 May · 03:35
  • ●︎New Moon 0°20' Gemini20 May · 23:47

  • ☿︎Mercury enters Taurus09 May · 05:14
  • ☉︎Sun enters Gemini20 May · 15:15
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Gemini24 May · 11:11

  • ♀︎Venus stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 23°59' Gemini · opens a 43-day retrograde15 May · 14:32

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 trine PlutoMars 9°14' Virgo · Pluto 9°14' Capricorn Rx16 May · 16:26

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.