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2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2008 

International Year Of Astronomy

JANUARY

03   Quadrantid Meteors

04   Earth at Perihelion 147,096,602km

04   First Quarter Moon

04   Mercury Greatest Elongation East 19°

11   Full Moon

18   Last Quarter Moon

20   Mercury Inferior Conjunction

24   Jupiter at  Conjunction

26   New Moon

26   Annular Eclipse (Pacific region)

FEBRUARY

02   First Quarter Moon

09   Full Moon

13   Mercury Greatest Elongation West 26°

16   Last Quarter Moon

25   New Moon

MARCH

04   Moon at First Quarter

08   Saturn at Opposition

11   Full Moon

18   Moon at Last Quarter

20   Vernal Equinox

26   New Moon

27   Venus at Inferior Conjunction

31   Mercury at Superior Conjunction

APRIL

02   Moon at First Quarter

09   Full Moon

17   Moon at Last Quarter

22   Lyrid Meteor Shower

25   New Moon

26   Mercury Greatest Elongation East 20°

MAY

01   Moon at First Quarter

04   Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower

09   Full Moon

17   Moon at Last Quarter

18   Mercury at Inferior Conjunction

24   New Moon

31   Moon at First Quarter

JUNE

07   Full Moon

13   Mercury Greatest Elongation West 24°

15   Moon at Last Quarter

21   Summer Solstice

22   New Moon

29   Moon at First Quarter

JULY

04   Earth at Aphelion

07   Full Moon

14   Mercury at Superior Conjunction

15   Moon at Last Quarter

18   Grazing Lunar Occultation of Alcyone

22   New Moon

22   Total Solar Eclipse (not from UK)

28   Moon at First Quarter

29   Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower

AUGUST

06   Full Moon 

12   Perseid Meteor Shower

13   Moon at Last Quarter

14  Jupiter at Opposition

17   Neptune at Opposition

20   New Moon

24   Mercury Greatest Elongation East 27°

27   Moon at First Quarter

30   New Moon

SEPTEMBER

04   Full Moon

12   Moon at Last Quarter

17   Saturn at conjunction

17   Uranus at Opposition

18   New Moon

20   Mercury at Inferior Conjunction

22   Autumnal Equinox

26   Moon at First Quarter

OCTOBER

04   Full Moon

06   Mercury Greatest Elongation West 18°

11   Moon at Last Quarter

18   New Moon

20   Orionid Meteor Shower

26   Moon at First Quarter

NOVEMBER

02   Full Moon

03  Taurid Meteor Shower

05   Mercury at Superior Conjunction

09   Moon at Last Quarter

16   New Moon

17   Leonid Meteor Shower

24   Moon at First Quarter

DECEMBER

02   Full Moon

09   Moon at Last Quarter

14   Geminid Meteor Shower

16   New Moon

18   Mercury Greatest Elongation East 27°

21   Winter Solstice

24   Moon at First Quarter

31   Full Moon