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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 stations direct19:10

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Eta Aquariids peak

○︎Full Moon 16°35' Scorpio22:26

☽︎Total lunar eclipse 16° Scorpio22:30

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Eta Lyrids peak

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☿︎Mercury enters Taurus10:24

♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction Saturn11:01

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♀︎Venus enters Cancer13:15

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♄︎Saturn stations retrograde14:28

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☉︎Sun enters Gemini19:50

☉︎Total solar eclipse 0° Gemini20:41

●︎New Moon 0°02' Gemini20:51

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♃︎Jupiter enters Leo21:48

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♅︎Uranus stations direct04:13

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  • ☽︎Total lunar eclipse 16° ScorpioMoon 16°37' Scorpio opposite the Sun 16°35' Taurus · north node · 45 minutes of totality06 May · 22:30
  • ☉︎Total solar eclipse 0° GeminiSun 0°02' Gemini · Moon 29°57' Taurus · south node · the Sun fully covered along the shadow's track20 May · 20:41

  • ○︎Full Moon 16°35' Scorpio06 May · 22:26
  • ●︎New Moon 0°02' Gemini20 May · 20:51

  • ☿︎Mercury enters Taurus16 May · 10:24
  • ♀︎Venus enters Cancer17 May · 13:15
  • ☉︎Sun enters Gemini20 May · 19:50
  • ♃︎Jupiter enters Leo22 May · 21:48

  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 22°14' Aries · closes the 24-day retrograde01 May · 19:10
  • ♄︎Saturn stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 8°55' Aquarius · opens a 141-day retrograde18 May · 14:28
  • ♅︎Uranus stations directstandstill at 16°36' Virgo · closes the 149-day retrograde24 May · 04:13

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 conjunction SaturnMars 8°55' Aquarius · Saturn 8°55' Aquarius16 May · 11:01

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.