Diary of Astronomical Phenomena
All times are in UTC, the civil “wall-clock” time-scale (without daylight savings)
April 2023
dd hh
02 10 Regulus 3.5° south of the Moon
06 05 Full Moon
06 19 Spica 2.5° south of the Moon
07 14 Moon at descending node
10 08 Antares 0.6° south of the Moon
11 04 Venus 2.5° south of Pleiades
11 21 Jupiter in conjunction with the Sun
11 22 Mercury at greatest elongation (19.5° east)
12 03 Moon furthest south (-28.0°)
13 09 Last quarter Moon
16 02 Moon at perigee (367967 km)
16 07 Saturn 4.1° north of the Moon
17 16 Venus at perihelion
20 04 New Moon
20 04 Hybrid Solar Eclipse; mag=1.013
20 12 Moon at ascending node
22 11 Pleiades 2.4° north of the Moon
23 01 Lyrid meteor shower
23 12 Venus 0.7° south of the Moon
25 06 Moon furthest north (+28.0°)
26 03 Mars 2.3° south of the Moon
26 12 Castor 5.5° north of the Moon
26 17 Pollux 1.9° north of the Moon
27 21 First quarter Moon
28 00 Beehive cluster 3.3° south of the Moon
28 07 Moon at apogee (404300 km)
29 21 Regulus 3.7° south of the Moon
May 2023
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01 23 Mercury at inferior conjunction
04 05 Spica 2.0° south of the Moon
04 22 Moon at descending node
05 14 Eta-Aquarid meteor shower
05 17 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse; mag=0.964
05 18 Full Moon
07 13 Antares 1.0° south of the Moon
08 11 Mars 4.9° south of Pollux
09 09 Moon furthest south (-27.9°)
09 21 Uranus in conjunction with the Sun
11 05 Moon at perigee (369345 km)
12 14 Last quarter Moon
13 16 Saturn 3.4° north of the Moon
15 03 Neptune 2.9° north of the Moon
17 14 Jupiter 0.3° south of the Moon
17 20 Moon at ascending node
18 00 Mercury 2.4° south of the Moon
19 16 New Moon (Black)
22 14 Moon furthest north (+27.9°)
23 11 Venus 1.7° south of the Moon
23 19 Castor 5.7° north of the Moon
24 02 Pollux 2.5° north of the Moon
24 21 Mars 3.0° south of the Moon
25 05 Beehive cluster 3.1° south of the Moon
26 02 Moon at apogee (404510 km)
27 03 Regulus 3.3° south of the Moon
27 15 First quarter Moon
29 05 Mercury at greatest elongation (24.9° west)
29 13 Venus 3.9° south of Pollux
30 21 Mars at aphelion (1.66594 AU)
31 12 Spica 2.5° south of the Moon