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Mercury at inferior conjunction with the Sun at 3h UT. Mercury passes into the morning sky.
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Moon near Antares (evening sky) at 20h UT.
• Antares (Wikipedia)
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Earth at Aphelion (farthest from Sun) at 12h UT. The Sun- Earth distance is 1.016694 a.u. or about 152.1 million km.
• Earth at Aphelion (SpaceWeather.com)
• Photographic Size Comparison (Anthony Ayiomamitis)
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Penumbral Lunar Eclipse from 3:07 to 5:52 UT, with mid-eclipse at 4:30 UT. Best seen at mid-eclipse. Visible from the Americas, SW Europe and Africa.
• NASA Lunar Eclipse Page (NASA)
• Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of 2020 July 05 (PDF) (NASA)
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Full Moon at 4:44 UT.
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Moon near Jupiter (midnight sky) at 23h UT. Mag. −2.7.
• Jupiter (Wikipedia)
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Moon near Saturn (midnight sky) at 10h UT. Mag. 0.2.
• Saturn (Wikipedia)
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Venus at its brightest at 12h UT. Mag. −4.5.
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Moon near Mars (morning sky) at 22h UT. Mag. −0.7.
• Mars (Wikipedia)
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Venus 0.95° N of Aldebaran (40° from Sun, morning sky) at 2h UT. Mags. −4.5 and 0.9.
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Moon at apogee (farthest from Earth) at 19h UT (distance 404,199 km; angular size 29.6').
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Last Quarter Moon at 23:30 UT.
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Jupiter at opposition (opposite the Sun) at 8h UT. Best time to observe the largest planet in the solar system. Mag. −2.8.
• Opposition (Wikipedia)
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Moon near the Pleiades at 8h UT (morning sky).
• The Pleiades (Wikipedia)
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Moon, Venus and Aldebaran within a circle of diam. 4.1° (morning sky) at 2h UT. Mags. −4.5 and 0.9.
• Venus (Wikipedia)
• Aldebaran (Wikipedia)
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Moon near Mercury (morning sky) at 5h UT. Mag. 0.9.
• Mercury (Wikipedia)
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Moon near Castor (morning sky) at 6h UT.
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Moon near Pollux (morning sky) at 10h UT.
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New Moon at 17:32 UT. Start of lunation 1207.
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Saturn at opposition (opposite the Sun) at 22h UT. The ringed planet is at its closest and brightest at mag. +0.1. Saturn's rings are spectacular even in a small telescope.
• Opposition (Wikipedia)
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Mercury at greatest elongation west (20° from Sun, morning sky) at 15h UT. Mag. 0.3.
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Moon near Regulus (evening sky) at 0h UT.
• Regulus (Wikipedia)
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Moon at perigee (closest to Earth) at 5:05 UT (distance 368,361 km; angular size 32.4').
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Moon near Spica (evening sky) at 19h UT.
• Spica (Wikipedia)
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First Quarter Moon at 12:33 UT.
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Moon near Antares (evening sky) at 3h UT.
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All times Universal Time (UT).
- US Eastern Daylight Time = UT − 4 hours.
- US Pacific Daylight Time = UT − 7 hours.
- Australian Eastern Standard Time = UT + 10 hours
- Singapore Standard Time = UT + 8 hours.
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