The Galactic Times

Uranus 0.7 degrees South of Moon*
2022-12-04 - 2022-12-05
* but occulted for observers in Europe, North Africa, Middle east, Russia and north Japan.

Neptune ceases retrograde motion
2022-12-03 - 2022-12-04

Neptune 3 degrees N of Moon
2022-12-01 11:00 - 2022-12-02 11:00 (America/Chicago)

Moon passes Jupiter by 3 degrees
2022-11-30 - 2022-12-01

Sun enters Ophiuchus!!!!
2022-11-29 - 2022-11-30

First Quarter Moon
2022-11-29 - 2022-11-30

Mars closest to Earth!
2022-11-29 - 2022-11-30

Mercury and Venus in quasi-conjunction
2022-11-28 11:00 - 12:00
Deep in the evening twilight! Use binoculars and look carefully, within 30 minutes after sunset.

Moon passes Saturn*
2022-11-27 - 2022-11-29
* but timing depends on where you are! In North America is is around midnight — setting time — on the 28th.

Perigee--Super 3-day Crescent Moon!
2022-11-26 11:30 - 12:30

Jupiter halts retrograde motion
2022-11-23 - 2022-11-24

Sun enters Scorpius
2022-11-22 - 2022-11-23

New Moon
2022-11-22 - 2022-11-23

Morning Crescent lower left of Spica
2022-11-20 22:00 - 2022-11-21 00:00

Leonids
2022-11-16 - 2022-11-19
The Moon is too close to where the Leonid meteors will stream from. While it is not the best place to look for meteors, the radiant point where they stream from, it does rather make for washing out the shower all over the sky anyway. Every 33 years the Leonids does get pretty active, from its measly 20 per hour to hundreds or thousands, but this year it will be hard put to even get that 20 visible with the Moon light washing out the Lion’s mouth.

Last Quarter
2022-11-15 - 2022-11-16
Near the Sickle of Leo and above Regulus. This will wipe out the Leonids.

Mars now visible all night
2022-11-14 - 2022-11-15

Moon at Apogee, 2-degrees from Pollux
2022-11-13 02:00

Mars 2-Degrees from Moon
2022-11-11 00:00 - 06:00
Near Beta Tauri. Moon between Mars and Beta–a tight fit!

North Taurid meteor shower peak
2022-11-10 - 2022-11-11
~15 per hour but the just past Full Moon will hide most. Can see some for up to a week before or after.

Uranus at opposition
2022-11-08 - 2022-11-09
Visible from sunset to sunrise. Magnitude +5.6 so technically naked eye.

Total Lunar Eclipse (Full Moon) + Uranus occulted
2022-11-08 03:00 - 10:00
A Dawn event for most, partial begins 4:09 AM EST, 1:09 PST, ends 7:49AM EST IF you can see it, 4:49PST. Totality begins 5:16 AM EST, 2:16 PST, ends 6:42 EST IF you can see it, 3:42 PST. To see all from start to finish be either in East Asia (Japan or east Russia) or west of the Arizona/New Mexico border to MN/ND border line. To all but final partial phases, be west of the line from Lake Michigan to the Texas Gulf Coast.
To find Uranus, look above the eclipsed Moon in the dawn. If you are in the FAR NORTH, like north Greenland, north of Hudson’s Bay, Uranus will occult (cover) the planet.

Daylight Saving Time Ends
2022-11-05 21:00

Saturn evening only planet...
2022-11-05 - 2022-11-06
…sets before midnight from now on.

South Taurid meteor shower peak
2022-11-04 - 2022-11-05
You can see some a week before and after. Best in late morning before twilight. ~10 per hour.

Jupiter 2 Degrees N of Moon Evening
2022-11-04 13:00 - 18:30
Note Jupiter’s 10.6 magnitude difference between nearby Neptune, and the 9.8 magnitude difference the other way compared to the Moon!

Neptune 3-deg N of Moon AM
2022-11-03 19:01 - 2022-11-04 00:00

First Quarter*
2022-11-01 01:30
*But only for US Pacific West Coast observers and points west!

Mars stationary
2022-10-29 - 2022-10-30
Mars begins retrograde, westward motion.

Saturn sets midnight Std Time
2022-10-28 22:59
