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JANUARY

03   Quadrantid Meteors

04   Earth at Perihelion 147,096,602km

04   Mercury Inferior Conjunction

07   Last Quarter Moon 

11   Venus Superior Conjunction

15   New Moon 

15   Annular Eclipse of the Sun

23   First Quarter Moon  

27   Mercury Greatest Elongation West 25°

30   Full Moon

FEBRUARY

05   Last Quarter Moon

14   New Moon

15   Neptune in conjunction with the Sun.

22   First Quarter Moon

28   Full Moon

28   Jupiter in conjunction with the Sun

MARCH

07   Moon at Last Quarter

13   Mercury at Superior Conjunction

15   New Moon

17   Uranus at conjunction

20   Vernal Equinox

23   Moon at First Quarter

26   Pluto at quadrature

30   Full Moon

APRIL

06   Moon at Last Quarter

09   Mercury Greatest Elongation East 19°

14   New Moon

21   Moon at First Quarter

22   Lyrid Meteor Shower

28   Mercury at Inferior Conjunction

28   Full Moon

MAY

05   Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower

06   Moon at Last Quarter

14   New Moon

14   Mars at quadrature

21   Moon at First Quarter

24   Neptune at quadrature

26   Mercury Greatest Elongation West 25°

28   Full Moon

JUNE

04   Moon at Last Quarter

12   New Moon

19   Moon at First Quarter

20   Saturn at quadrature

21   Summer Solstice

22   Uranus at quadrature

23   Jupiter at quadrature

26   Full Moon

26   Partial Lunar eclipse (not visible from UK)

28   Mercury at Superior Conjunction

JULY

04   Moon at Last Quarter

06   Earth at Aphelion 152,096,447km

11   New Moon

18   Moon at First Quarter

26   Full Moon

28   Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower

AUGUST

03   Moon at Last Quarter

07   Mercury Greatest Elongation East 27°

10   New Moon

12   Perseid Meteor Shower

16   Moon at First Quarter

20   Venus Greatest Elongation East 45°

24   Full Moon 

SEPTEMBER

01   Moon at Last Quarter

02   Mercury at Inferior Conjunction

08   New Moon

15   Moon at First Quarter

19   Mercury Greatest Elongation West 17°

23   Autumnal Equinox

23   Full Moon

26   Pluto at quadrature

OCTOBER

01   Moon at Last Quarter

02   Saturn at conjunction

07   New Moon

14   Moon at First Quarter

16   Mercury at Superior Conjunction

21   Orionid Meteor Shower

23   Full Moon

27   Venus at Inferior Conjunction

30   Moon at Last Quarter

NOVEMBER

03   Taurid Meteor Shower

06   New Moon

13   Moon at First Quarter

17   Leonid Meteor Shower

21   Full Moon

23   Neptune at quadrature

28   Moon at Last Quarter

DECEMBER

01   Mercury Greatest Elongation East 21°

05   New Moon

13   Geminid Meteor Shower

13   Moon at First Quarter

18   Jupiter at quadrature

19   Uranus at quadrature

20   Mercury at inferior conjunction

21   Full Moon

22   Winter Solstice

26   Pluto at conjunction

28   Moon at Last Quarter