Looking ahead at the 2011 calendar, the night sky is riddled with treats for gazers who know what to look for in the Philadelphia area (again, with best results on the outskirts as far away from city lights as possible). Here are the highlights and their corresponding dates (approximations mind you), as we move forward to 2012, with hopefully little to no indicators of apocalypse or cataclysmically devastating global destruction.Full Moons:

  • February 18
  • March 19
  • April 17
  • May 17
  • June 15
  • July 15
  • August 13
  • September 12
  • October 11
  • November 10
  • December 10

New Moons:

  • February 3
  • March 4
  • April 3
  • May 3
  • June 1
  • July 1
  • July 30
  • August 29
  • September 27
  • October 26
  • November 25
  • December 24

Planets Reaching Closest Proximity to Earth (Potentially Visible):

  • April 3 Saturn
  • August 22 Neptune
  • September 25 – Uranus
  • October 29 Jupiter

Meteor Showers:

  • April 16-25 Lyrids
  • July 18-August 18 Southern Delta Aquarids
  • July 23-August 22 Perseids
  • October 17-25 Orionids
  • November 13-20 Leonids
  • December 6-19 Geminids

Posted by www.philastrosoc.org, filed under Dates. Date: January 17, 2011, 12:00 am | Comments Off

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