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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.

‹ September 1988

October 1988

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♀︎Venus enters Virgo13:14

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Draconids peak

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●︎New Moon 17°48' Libra21:49

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♄︎☌︎Saturn conjunction Uranus13:25

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☿︎Mercury stations direct05:23

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Orionids peak

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☉︎Sun enters Scorpio04:44

♂︎Mars retrogrades into Pisces22:01

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○︎Full Moon 1°59' Taurus04:36

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♂︎Mars stations direct05:07

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♀︎Venus enters Libra23:19

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None this month.

  • ●︎New Moon 17°48' Libra10 Oct · 21:49
  • ○︎Full Moon 1°59' Taurus25 Oct · 04:36

  • ♀︎Venus enters Virgo04 Oct · 13:14
  • ☉︎Sun enters Scorpio23 Oct · 04:44
  • ♂︎Mars retrogrades into PiscesRx23 Oct · 22:01
  • ♀︎Venus enters Libra29 Oct · 23:19

  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 11°38' Libra · closes the 21-day retrograde20 Oct · 05:23
  • ♂︎Mars stations directstandstill at 29°52' Pisces · closes the 63-day retrograde28 Oct · 05:07

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

  • ♄︎☌︎Saturn conjunction UranusSaturn 27°49' Sagittarius · Uranus 27°49' Sagittarius18 Oct · 13:25

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.