The Galactic Times

Saturn Stationary
2022-10-22 - 2022-10-23
Ends westward retrograde motion, resumes eastward normal motion.

Venus in Solar Conjunction
2022-10-21 - 2022-10-22

Orionid Meteor Shower
2022-10-19 - 2022-10-21

Brilliant Mars 4-deg. from Moon
2022-10-14 18:00 - 2022-10-15 01:00 (America/Chicago)
Watch the Moon and Mars rise together around midnight!

Jupiter now sets before the Sun rises...
2022-10-13 19:00 - 2022-10-14 18:59
….and rises before the Sun sets.

Moon passes by Pleiades
2022-10-13 14:00 - 14:30

Jupiter sets exactly as Mercury rises
2022-10-12 01:00

Uranus emerges from behind Moon
2022-10-11 16:00 - 17:30
Mainly West Coast US and Canada, ~9 California -10 PM Winnipeg, as examples

Mercury too hard to find
2022-10-11 03:00 - 12:00
Sets less than 45 minutes before sun rise, difficult to find in dawn skies the rest of the month.

BORDER CROSSING
2022-10-10 - 2022-10-31
Sun leaves Virgo, enters Libra

Full Moon
2022-10-08 19:00 - 2022-10-09 18:59

Jupiter CLOSE to Moon
2022-10-08 18:00 - 21:00
by only 2 degrees, around midnight.

Mercury rises start of morning twilight
2022-10-07 23:30 - 2022-10-10 01:00
…and is at its maximum elongation west of the Sun, magnitude 0.5, bright, easy to spot!

Faint Neptune 3 degrees N...
2022-10-07 14:00 - 14:30
…. of the Moon

Saturn Just 4 deg. N of Moon...
2022-10-05 15:00
….look in EARLY evening, Moon moves east as the evening gets later

Perigee
2022-10-04 07:00

Mercury and Jupiter....
2022-10-03 23:30 - 2022-10-04 01:00
…4 degrees above opposite horizons, the biggest and smallest of planets visible at the same time, in the dawn.

First Quarter Moon
2022-10-01 - 2022-10-02

OAO's 100 Hours of Astronomy Events
2022-09-30 19:00 - 2022-10-04 18:59

Antares has a visitor...
2022-09-30 13:30 - 18:30
…the nearly First Quarter Moon, really close!

Crescent Moon below...
2022-09-28 14:00 - 14:30
Alpha Librae, Zubenelgenubi (Say that five times fast!)

Mercury visible 45 minutes after Sunset from today on
2022-09-28 13:30 - 18:59

NEW MOON
2022-09-24 19:00 - 2022-09-25 18:59
A solar eclipse, though, in one month…

Jupiter at Opposition
2022-09-24 19:00 - 2022-09-25 18:59

See Venus below Old Moon in Evening
2022-09-23 19:00 - 2022-09-24 18:59
30 minutes after Sunset only!

Moon is to the left...
2022-09-23 00:00 - 00:30
…of Regulus

September Equinox
2022-09-21 19:00 - 2022-09-22 18:59
Actually, 8:04 PM Central Daylight Time…..

Pollux and Moon.....
2022-09-19 23:30
….about 4 Moon diameters apart!

Apogee
2022-09-18 19:00 - 2022-09-19 18:59
A Micro-Waning-Gibbous Moon!

Moon between Mars and Pleiades
2022-09-16 03:00 - 12:00
Evening…..
