Astronomical agenda for 2017

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REMARKABLE EVENTS 2017		"Total Solar Eclipse" (21/08/2017)	"Asteroid 2014 J025" (19/04/2017)	Annular Eclipse of the Sun (26/02/2017)	Penumbral Lunar Eclipse (10-11/02/2017)
				Astronomy days	Historical anniversaries

TABLES: EARTH-SUN	TABLES: MOON	TABLES: PLANETS
ECLIPSES	METEOR SHOWERS	LINKS

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Remarkable events

Total Solar Eclipse 21/08/2017

Asteroid 2014 J025 19/04/2017

Penumbral Lunar eclipse 10-11/02/2017

Annular Eclipse of the Sun, 26/02/2017 In a narrow corridor cutting across the southern reaches of Chile and Argentina, and stretching across the Atlantic to Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia in Africa, the Moon crossed the sun dead-center. Yet it only covered 99% of the solar disk. ( A video illustration of the path of the eclipse) Image taken by Enzo De Bernardini a Facundo, Chubut, Argentina.

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Astronomy Days

12 February, International Day of the girl and woman in Science	12 April, International Day of Human Space Flight	30 de June, Asteroid Day
4-10 October World Space Week	11 November Week, Internatiol Science Week

Historical Anniversaries

July 2007, Gran Telescopio de Canarias undergoes first light, becoming the largest telescope in the world	Julio 1997, Mars Pathfinder and its rover, Sojourner, land on Mars, with the latter becoming the first rover to successfully travel the planet	February 1987, SN 1987A, is detected in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It was the closest observed supernova to Earth since the invention of the telescope.
September 1977, Voyager 1 was launched to Jupiter & Saturn. The human object most distant from the Earth until now.	November 1967, pulsar PSR B1919+21 Jocelyn Bell & Antony Hewish discover the first radio pulsar.	October 1957, Spútnik 1 It was launched the firs artificial satellite of the history
November 1917, Hooker Telescope the largest telescope in the world from 1917 until 1948, sees first light. It was used many times by Hubble.	%C3%A6_Naturalis_Principia_Mathematica'" style="cursor: pointer;" class='TMLhtml' > July 1687, Newton's Principia Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica was first published.

Tables

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Earth-Sun

Changes of season

	Date	Exact hour
Spring	20 March	10 h 28 m UT
Summer	21 June	04 h 24 m UT
Autumm	22 September	20 h 02 m UT
Winter	21 December	16 h 28 m UT

Sunrise and sunset hours for any place (Calculation tool in javascript).

Earth's orbit

	Date	Distance to the Sun
Perihelion (minimum distance)	4 January	147101033 km
Afhelion (maximum distance)	3 July	152092474 km

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Moon

Lunar phases ( UT ):

New Moon	Crescent Moon	Full Moon	Waning Moon
	05/01/2017	12/01/2017	19/01/2017
28/01/2017	04/02/2017	11/02/2017	18/02/2017
26/02/2017	05/03/2017	12/03/2017	20/03/2017
28/03/2017	03/04/2017	11/04/2017	19/04/2017
26/04/2017	03/05/2017	10/05/2017	19/05/2017
25/05/2017	01/06/2017	09/06/2017	17/06/2017
24/06/2017	01/07/2017	09/07/2017	16/07/2017
23/07/2017	30/07/2015	07/08/2015	15/08/2015
21/08/2017	29/08/2017	06/09/2017	13/09/2017
20/09/2017	28/09/2017	05/10/2017	12/10/2017
19/10/2017	27/10/2017	04/11/2017	10/11/2017
18/11/2017	26/11/2017	03/12/2017	10/12/2017
18/12/2017	26/12/2017

Moon's orbit

Perigee (minimum distance)				Apogee (maximum distance)
						02 January
10 January	06 February	03 March		22 January	18 February	18 March
30 March	27 April	26 May		15 April	12 May	08 June
23 June	21 July	18 August		06 July	02 August	30 August
13 September	09 October	06 November		27 September	25 October	21 November
04 December				19 December

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Information about the planets ( UT ):

Mercury

Day		Hour		Event
19 January		09:59 h		Max. West elong
01 April		09:59 h		Max. East elong
17 May		22:59 h		Max. West elong
30 July		03:59 h		Max. East elong
12 September		09:59 h		Max. West elong
23 November		23:59 h		Max. East elong

Venus

Day	Hour	Event
12 January	12:59 h	Max. East elong
03 June	10:59 h	Max. West elong

Mars

Day	Hour	Event
26 July	23:59 h	Conjunction

Jupiter

Day	Hour	Event
07 April	20:58 h	Opposition
26 October	18:02 h	Conjunction

Saturn

Day	Hour	Event
15 June	09:15 h	Opposition
21 December	20:18 h	Conjunction

Uranus

Day	Hour	Event
14 April	05:43 h	Conjunction
19 October	17:24 h	Opposition

Neptune

Day	Hour	Event
02 March	02:22 h	Conjunction
05 September	04:18 h	Opposition

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Eclipses

Solar Eclipses

Tipo	Day	Hour máximo	Visibilidad
Anular	26 February	14:54 TU	Visible from s. S. America, Atlantic, Africa, Antarctica (Annular: Pacific, Chile, Argentina, Atlantic, Africa) map
Total	21 August	18:26 TU	Visible en N. America, n S. America (Total: n Pacific, U.S., s Atlantic) map

Lunar eclipses

Type	Day	Hour of the maximum	Visibility
Penumbral	11 February	00h 45m TU	America, Europa, Africa, Asia
Partial	07 August	18h 22m TU	Europa, Africa, Asia, Australia.

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Meteors Shower

Name	Days	Maximum aprox	Constelation around the radiant	Meteors per hour (aprox)
Quadrantids	1-5 January	3 January- 14:10	Bootes	120
Lyrid	15-28 April	22 April - 11:40	Lyra	20
Eta-Aquarid	19 April - 28 May	5 May -00:54	Aquarius	60
Arietid	22 May-2 July	7 June	Aries	54
Delta Aquarid	12 July-19 August	28 July - 02:41	Aquarius	20
Perseids	17 July - 24 August	12 August- 18:35	Perseus	90
Orionids	2 October-7 November	21October- 10:54 October	Orion	20
Leonids	14 - 21 November	17 November- 16:56	Leo	variable
Geminids	7 17 December	14 December - 06:07	Gemini	120

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Links

1. Ephemerids from Observatorio Astronómico Nacional
2. NASA Sky events calendar
3. Space calendar
4. Ephemerids from ROA
5. Eclipse Homepage from NASA
6. http://olympus.umons.ac.be/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ephemerides-olympus-2012.pdf

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