The Galactic Times

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 (America/Chicago)
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

Moon at Perigee
2022-10-28 - 2022-10-29

New Moon and Partial Solar Eclipse
2022-10-25 06:00 - 08:00
Visible mostly in Europe, NE Africa, Western Russia and Middle East. In North America, only at sunrise at Greenland’s Eastern shoreline and Iceland. Max at northern shores of central Russia, 86%.

Partial Solar Eclipse...
2022-10-25 03:00 - 12:00
Nearest to USA: East Coast of Greenland and Iceland. Otherwise, most of Europe, western Asia, NE Africa.

Saturn ends retrograde motion
2022-10-23 19:00 - 2022-10-24 18:59

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
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!
