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A table listing some of the Astronomical Phenomena for July 2017:

Phenomena July

DayEvent
1First quarter Moon (00:52 UT)
1Moon passes 3 degrees north of Jupiter mag -2.1 (8 UT)
2Moon passes 7 degrees north of Spica mag +1.0 (0 UT)
3Earth is at aphelion 1.017 AU (approx. 152.1 million km or 94.5 million miles) from the Sun (20:11 UT)
5Moon passes 10 degrees north of Antares mag +1.0 (22 UT)
6Moon is at apogee 405,932 km or 252,234 miles from Earth (4:18 UT)
7Moon passes 3 degrees north of Saturn mag +0.1 (3 UT)
9Full Moon (4:07 UT)
10Dwarf planet Pluto mag +14.2 is at opposition in Sagittarius at 32.347 AU (approx. 4839 million kms or 3007 million miles) from Earth (5 UT)
13Moon passes 0.9 degrees south of Neptune mag +7.9 (18 UT)
14Venus mag. -4.1 passes 3 degrees north of Aldebaran mag +0.9 (11 UT)
16Last quarter Moon (19:26 UT)
17Moon passes 4 degrees south of Uranus mag +5.8 (0 UT)
20Moon passes 0.4 degrees north of Aldebaran mag +0.9, occultation is visible from SW Asia (00:01 UT)
20Moon passes 3 degrees south of Venus mag -4.0 (11 UT)
21Moon is at perigee 361,236 km or 224,462 miles from Earth (17:05 UT)
23New Moon (9:46 UT)
25Moon passes 0.9 degrees north of Mercury mag +0.1, occultation is visible from UK, Greenland, Iceland (8:49 UT)
25Moon passes 0.1 degrees north of Regulus mag +1.4, occultation is visible from western Indonesia (10:37 UT)
27Mars is in conjunction with the Sun (1 UT)
28Moon passes 3 degrees north of Jupiter mag -1.9 (21 UT)
29Moon passes 7 degrees north of Spica mag +1.0 (8 UT)
29Southern Delta Aquarids meteor shower peaks ZHR = 16 (15 UT)
30Mercury mag +0.3 is at greatest elongation east 27.2 degrees (5 UT)
30First quarter Moon (15:24 UT)