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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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●︎New Moon 10°16' Libra18:55

☉︎Total solar eclipse 10° Libra19:05

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☿︎Mercury enters Scorpio00:18

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Draconids peak

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♂︎Mars enters Aquarius01:01

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♀︎Venus stations retrograde16:32

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☽︎Total lunar eclipse 24° Aries19:17

○︎Full Moon 24°07' Aries19:22

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♂︎□︎Mars square Pluto02:12

Orionids peak

♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Saturn17:02

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☉︎Sun enters Scorpio17:13

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  • ☉︎Total solar eclipse 10° LibraSun 10°16' Libra · Moon 10°22' Libra · south node · the Sun fully covered along the shadow's track03 Oct · 19:05
  • ☽︎Total lunar eclipse 24° AriesMoon 24°05' Aries opposite the Sun 24°07' Libra · north node · 75 minutes of totality17 Oct · 19:17

  • ●︎New Moon 10°16' Libra03 Oct · 18:55
  • ○︎Full Moon 24°07' Aries17 Oct · 19:22

  • ☿︎Mercury enters Scorpio04 Oct · 00:18
  • ♂︎Mars enters Aquarius09 Oct · 01:01
  • ☉︎Sun enters Scorpio23 Oct · 17:13

  • ♀︎Venus stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 20°23' Scorpio · opens a 41-day retrograde15 Oct · 16:32

Equinoxes and solstices

None this month.

Meteor showers

  • ·Draconids peakup to 10 an hour under a dark sky · comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner08 Oct
  • ·Orionids peakup to 20 an hour under a dark sky · comet 1P/Halley21 Oct

  • ♂︎□︎Mars square PlutoMars 6°53' Aquarius · Pluto 6°53' Scorpio21 Oct · 02:12
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile SaturnMars 7°15' Aquarius · Saturn 7°15' Sagittarius21 Oct · 17:02

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.