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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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Eta Aquariids peak

●︎New Moon 16°41' Taurus19:30

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Eta Lyrids peak

9

♃︎Jupiter stations direct12:15

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20

☉︎Sun enters Gemini14:36

21

○︎Full Moon 1°13' Sagittarius21:15

22

☿︎Mercury stations direct13:19

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♀︎Venus enters Gemini09:44

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26

♃︎□︎Jupiter square Saturn12:27

27

♂︎Mars retrogrades into Scorpio13:51

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None this month.

  • ●︎New Moon 16°41' Taurus06 May · 19:30
  • ○︎Full Moon 1°13' Sagittarius21 May · 21:15

  • ☉︎Sun enters Gemini20 May · 14:36
  • ♀︎Venus enters Gemini24 May · 09:44
  • ♂︎Mars retrogrades into ScorpioRx27 May · 13:51

  • ♃︎Jupiter stations directstandstill at 13°15' Virgo · closes the 122-day retrograde09 May · 12:15
  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 14°20' Taurus · closes the 24-day retrograde22 May · 13:19

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

  • ♃︎□︎Jupiter square SaturnJupiter 13°41' Virgo · Saturn 13°41' Sagittarius Rx26 May · 12:27

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.