2011 February Sky Map
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS
Feb 3: New Moon
Feb 4: Mars Conjunction
Feb 7: Saturn forms a perfect triangle with two 8th mag stars after midnight
Feb 7: A 4 days old Waxing Crescent Moon within 8 degrees of Jupiter
Feb 11: First Quarter Moon
Feb 11: Moon within 4.5 degrees of Pleiades
Feb 17: Neptune Conjunction
Feb 18: Full Moon
Feb [...]
MAY 1: A Waning Gibbous Moon is just 1 degree North of Antares at 1:30 am.
MAY 4: Mars Eastern Quadrature.
MAY 6: Last Quarter Moon.
MAY 9: A Waning Crescent Moon (25% illuminated) stands about 8 degrees West of Jupiter before dawn.
MAY 14: New Moon.
MAY 16: A Waxing Crescent Moon is just 1.5 degrees E-SE of [...]
APRIL 1: Venus and Mercury are 3 degrees apart, very low near horizon in West at 7:50pm.
APRIL 4: A Waning Gibbous Moon stands around 5 degrees E-SE of Antares.
APRIL 6: Last Quarter Moon.
APRIL 9: Mercury Greatest Eastern elongation.
APRIL 12: A very thin Crescent Moon will be nearly 6.5 degrees N of Jupiter just before dawn. [...]
March 3: A Waning Gibbous Moon (18.23 days old) is just 4 degrees SE of Spica at 11:30pm in east.
March 7: The Moon will be just 1 degree from Antares at 6:00am.
March 7: Last Quarter Moon.
March 13-14: Messier Marathon. Locating all the 110 Messier objects from the evening of 14th to the morning of 14th [...]
Jan 15th - Annular Solar Eclipse
Jan 27th -Closest Approach of Mars
Jan 30th - Mars at Opposition
Jan 30th - Biggest Full Moon at Perigee
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