Calendar of Astronomical Events

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1 Asteroid 8 Flora at opposition Mercury at perihelion	2	3	4	5	6	7
8 Moon at Last Quarter Mercury at dichotomy	9 Comet C/2020 M3 (ATLAS) reaches peak brightness	10 Mercury at highest altitude in morning sky Mercury at greatest elongation west	11	12 Northern Taurid meteor shower 2020 Conjunction of the Moon and Venus Close approach of the Moon and Venus	13 Conjunction of the Moon and Mercury Mars ends retrograde motion	14 The Moon at perigee Comet C/2020 M3 (ATLAS) passes perigee
15 New Moon Conjunction of Jupiter and Pluto Supernova AT2020aahp discovered	16 The Moon at perihelion	17 Leonid meteor shower 2020 Comet C/2020 S3 (Erasmus) passes perigee The Pleiades cluster is well placed	18	19 Conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter Close approach of the Moon and Jupiter Conjunction of the Moon and Saturn Close approach of the Moon and Saturn	20	21 α-Monocerotid meteor shower 2020 Moon at First Quarter
22	23	24	25 Conjunction of the Moon and Mars Close approach of the Moon and Mars	26 The Moon at apogee	27 The Hyades cluster is well placed	28 November Orionid meteor shower 2020 The Moon at aphelion Neptune ends retrograde motion
29	30 Full Moon Penumbral lunar eclipse Comet C/2019 N1 (ATLAS) passes perihelion