A table listing some of the Astronomical Phenomena for January 2014:
Phenomena January
Day | Event |
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1 | New Moon (11:15 UT) |
1 | Moon is at perigee 356,923 km or 221,782 miles from Earth (20:53 UT) |
3 | Mars mag +0.8 is at aphelion 1.666 AU (approx. 249.2 million km or 154.9 million miles) from the Sun |
3 | Quadrantids meteor shower peaks (ZHR = 120 - can vary between 60 and 200) (19:30 UT) |
4 | Earth is at perihelion 0.983 AU (approx. 147 million km or 91.4 million miles) from Sun (12 UT) |
5 | Moon passes 5 degrees north of Neptune mag +7.9 (2 UT) |
5 | Jupiter mag -2.7 is at opposition in Gemini approx. 4.211 AU (630 million km or 391 million miles) from Earth (21 UT) |
7 | Venus mag -4.3 passes 6 degrees north of Mercury mag. -1.2 (11 UT) |
7 | Moon passes 3 degrees north of Uranus mag +5.8 (13 UT) |
8 | First quarter Moon (3:40 UT) |
8 | Asteroid (19) Fortuna mag +9.7 is at opposition in Gemini |
11 | Venus is at inferior conjunction (1 UT) |
11 | Asteroid (11) Parthenope mag +9.9 is at opposition in Gemini |
12 | Moon passes 3 degrees north of Aldebaran mag +0.9 (9 UT) |
15 | Moon passes 5 degrees south of Jupiter mag -2.7 (6 UT) |
16 | Moon is at apogee 406,533 km or 252,608 miles from Earth (1:35 UT) |
16 | Moon passes 12 degrees south of Pollux mag +1.1 (4 UT) |
16 | Full Moon (04:53 UT) |
19 | Moon passes 5 degrees south of Regulus mag +1.4 (5 UT) |
23 | Moon passes 4 degrees south of Mars mag +0.4 (7 UT) |
23 | Moon passes 1.3 degrees north of Spica mag +1.0 (10 UT) |
24 | Venus mag -4.5 is at perihelion 0.718 AU (approx. 107 million km or 66.7 million miles) from the Sun |
24 | Last quarter Moon (5:20 UT) |
25 | Moon passes 0.6 degrees south of Saturn mag +0.8, occultation is visible from New Zealand, southern tip of South America (14 UT) |
26 | Moon passes 8 degrees north of Antares mag +1.0 (18 UT) |
28 | Mars mag +0.3 passes 5 degrees north of Spica mag +1.0 (19 UT) |
28 | Asteroid (18) Melpomene mag +9.3 is at opposition in Cancer |
29 | Moon passes 2 degrees south of Venus mag -4.4 (3 UT) |
30 | Moon is at perigee 357,080 km or 221,879 miles from Earth (9:52 UT) |
30 | New Moon (21:39 UT) |
31 | Mercury mag -0.7 is at greatest elongation east 18 degrees (10 UT) |
31 | Venus mag -4.5 is stationary (19 UT) |