The calendar now covers the years 2020 to 2039! It includes some event types not previously included. There are now lists for dichotomies of Mercury and Venus, quadratures of major planets, when planets are closest to Earth, and the apparent tilts of Mars and Saturn toward Earth. Lists have been updated for the 2020s and 2030s. The moon perigee and apogee list includes the lunar disk's apparent size. The searchable events database now covers 2020 to 2039! And many types of events not previously included have been added. Those include quadratures, meteor showers, tilts of Mars and Saturn toward Earth, when planets are closest to Earth, and dichotomies of Venus and Mercury. You can look things up by object (Sun, Venus, Jupiter, etc.) or by event type within a date range you specify. Please understand that aurorae, the appearances of novae, and other events that are difficult or impossible to predict are not listed in the database. Click here for solar eclipse visibility maps! For now, the first solar eclipse of 2026 is available. More will be added soon. These require much more work than lunar eclipse maps, so please be patient. You can click on these maps and get the local circumstances for that point in UTC and the time zone in use there. Click here for lunar eclipse visibility maps for the years 2026 through 2040 You can see where the eclipse will be visible and convert the UTC times for key moments to your time zone. The current and recent monthly narratives are at www.skycaramba.com/monthly. The archived weekly blog from several years ago is at www.skycaramba.com/blog. Keep up with the SkyCaramba podcast at this link. Read the monthly happenings section for this month's astronomy events. You can also check out the new monthly events calendar.

Astronomical event lists
Conjunctions are when two objects line up on a north-south line	Moon Phases new, first quarter, full, last quarter	Oppositions when an object is up all night because it's opposite the sun
Earth's Seasons winter, spring, summer, fall	Eclipses when the moon passes in front of the sun or the moon goes through Earth's shadow	Mars's Seasons are not much like Earth's
Aphelions are when planets are at their farthest from the sun	Lunar Nodes are when the moon crosses the ecliptic--the sun's travel line	Perihelions are when planets are at their closest to the sun
Greatest Elongations when Mercury and Venus appear as far from the sun as they will get	Planets' Circumstances evening or morning, direct or retrograde, and constellations they're in	Lunistices and more northern and southern lunistice, and when the moon crosses the equator
Occultations happen when the moon passes in front of another object	Moon's perigee and apogee are when the moon is closest to and farthest from the earth	Transits of Mercury and Venus in front of the sun
Dichotomies of Mercury and Venus (appearing as semi-circles)	Quadratures of planets with the sun	Closest approaches of planets to Earth
Mars appearance, tilt toward Earth, minimum illumination	Saturn appearance, maximum and minimum angle ring views

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