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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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☿︎Mercury enters Gemini02:49

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Eta Aquariids peak

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Eta Lyrids peak

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♀︎Venus enters Gemini02:01

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●︎New Moon 21°18' Taurus19:00

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♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Uranus02:47

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♃︎Jupiter enters Pisces22:35

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☉︎Sun enters Gemini19:37

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♄︎Saturn stations retrograde09:19

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○︎Full Moon 5°26' Sagittarius11:14

☽︎Total lunar eclipse 5° Sagittarius11:18

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☿︎Mercury stations retrograde22:35

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♂︎△︎Mars trine Neptune05:15

  • ☽︎Total lunar eclipse 5° SagittariusMoon 5°28' Sagittarius opposite the Sun 5°25' Gemini · south node · 18 minutes of totality26 May · 11:18

  • ●︎New Moon 21°18' Taurus11 May · 19:00
  • ○︎Full Moon 5°26' Sagittarius26 May · 11:14

  • ☿︎Mercury enters Gemini04 May · 02:49
  • ♀︎Venus enters Gemini09 May · 02:01
  • ♃︎Jupiter enters Pisces13 May · 22:35
  • ☉︎Sun enters Gemini20 May · 19:37

  • ♄︎Saturn stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 13°31' Aquarius · opens a 141-day retrograde23 May · 09:19
  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 24°43' Gemini · opens a 24-day retrograde29 May · 22:35

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 sextile UranusMars 11°19' Cancer · Uranus 11°19' Taurus12 May · 02:47
  • ♂︎△︎Mars trine NeptuneMars 23°01' Cancer · Neptune 23°01' Pisces31 May · 05:15

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.