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About Celestial Calendar

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 Gemini17:39

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♄︎Saturn stations direct20:42

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Eta Aquariids peak

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Eta Lyrids peak

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♀︎Venus enters Taurus05:29

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●︎New Moon 22°39' Taurus07:21

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♂︎Mars enters Pisces21:50

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☉︎Sun enters Gemini22:12

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♂︎Mars trine Neptune06:36

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♂︎Mars opposition Saturn19:12

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○︎Full Moon 7°33' Sagittarius18:42

☽︎Penumbral lunar eclipse 7° Sagittarius18:54

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☿︎Mercury stations retrograde05:18

  • ☽︎Penumbral lunar eclipse 7° SagittariusMoon 7°40' Sagittarius opposite the Sun 7°33' Gemini · north node · penumbral shadow only28 May · 18:54

  • ●︎New Moon 22°39' Taurus13 May · 07:21
  • ○︎Full Moon 7°33' Sagittarius28 May · 18:42

  • ☿︎Mercury enters Gemini04 May · 17:39
  • ♀︎Venus enters Taurus12 May · 05:29
  • ♂︎Mars enters Pisces19 May · 21:50
  • ☉︎Sun enters Gemini20 May · 22:12

  • ♄︎Saturn stations directstandstill at 4°04' Virgo · closes the 136-day retrograde05 May · 20:42
  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 25°52' Gemini · opens a 24-day retrograde31 May · 05:18

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 NeptuneMars 2°50' Pisces · Neptune 2°50' Cancer24 May · 06:36
  • ♂︎Mars opposition SaturnMars 4°27' Pisces · Saturn 4°27' Virgo26 May · 19:12

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.