Full Astronomical Calendar 2016 astronomy events.

Those who have the passion to look into the sky have something to notice every night throughout the year. As the Earth travels around the sun for 365 days, there are a number of important events from meteor showers to conjunctions or eclipses.

In 2016, many astronomical events are observed, but the truth is that many will bypass observations for Europe, and therefore people have to travel the world to see them.
2016 is full of surprises for observers worldwide. A lot of events will take place this year from occultations to eclipses.

If you are in Eastern Europe, you should not miss the penumbra lunar eclipse on 16 September.
Another rarer event is conjunction of Venus with Jupiter on August 27. The two planets are very close to each other, just 0.6 degrees.
The most rare and spectacular event of the year 2016 remains in my opinion Mercury transiting the Sun on May 9. For its observation you should be equipped with a solar filter and a pair of binoculars or a telescope.
Take your binoculars or telescope from the closet, because surely, in 2016 you will not have too many pauses between the events that will unfold in the sky.

Astronomical Calendar 2015 astronomical events.

I have gathered here informations about astronomical phenomena of the year 2015 which took me a lot of time and believe me it was not easy to put them together. I hope you’ll find interesting this astronomical calendar.

January.
►02 January 2016 - the last quarter moon. 07:30.
►02 January 2016 - Moon at apogee. The moon reaches the furthest point from the Earth (404279 km from Earth) at 1:53 p.m..
►03 January 2016 - Earth at perihelion. Earth reaches the closest point to the Sun, 0.98330 AU, 01:00.
►03 January 2016 - Mars 1.5 ° S Moon at 20:45.
►03,04 January 2016 - Quadrantids. Quadrantid Meteor shower, get to have up to 40 meteors per hour, usually on 3 and 4 January, but may be visible from the 1st January to 5th. The highest rate of meteors per hour took place in 1932 (80 per hour). Meteors radiate from the constellation Bootes, near the North Star.
The source of this meteor shower was unknown until December 2003 when Peter Jenniskens of the Ames Research Center (NASA) found evidence that meteoroids come from 2003 EH1 , an “asteroid”, which is probably a piece of a comet which collapsed 500 years ago.This year, the last quarter the moon will make this event a favorable time for observation.
►08 January 2016 - Mercury perihelion. The planet will be at its closest point to the Sun at 20:00.
►10 January 2016 - New Moon. The moon will be directly between the Earth and Sun and will not be visible from Earth. This phase occurs at 3:30.
►12 January 2016 - Comet 116P / Wild reaches perihelion, the closest position of the sun. It has a 6.50-year orbit. Its return was observed 4 times.
►14 January 2016 - Mercury at inferior conjunction at 16:00.
►15 January 2016 - The moon reaches perigee, the closest point to Earth (369619 km from Earth) at 4:10.
►17 January 2016 - the first quarter moon. at 1:26.
►17 January 2016 - Comet PanSTARRS (2014 Y1) reaches perihelion, the closest position from the sun. It has an unknown orbit. Its return was seen 0 times.
►19 January 2016 - Comet P / PanSTARRS (2015 P4) reaches perihelion, the closest position of the sun. It has an orbit of 15.0 years. Its return has been seen 1 times.
►20 January 2016 - Aldebaran 0.5 ° S Moon at 4:16.
►21 January 2016 - Comet 211P / Hill reaches perihelion, the closest position of the sun. It has a 6.71-year orbit. Its return was observed 2 times.
►24 January 2016 - Full Moon. Earth will be between the Sun and Moon, and therefore, the Moon will be fully illuminated as seen from Earth. This phase occurs at 3:46.
►28 January 2016 - Jupiter 1.4 ° N of Moon at 3:14.
►30 January 2015 - Moon at apogee. The moon reaches the furthest point from the Earth (404553 km from Earth) at 11:10.

February.
►01 February 2016 - the last quarter The moon. at 5:28.
►07 February 2016 - Mercury at greatest elongation at: 25.6 ° W, 03:00
►08 February 2016 - Comet 50P / Arend reaches perihelion, the closest position of the sun. It has a 8.25-year orbit. Its return was seen 8 times.
►08 February 2016 - New Moon. The moon will be directly between the Earth and Sun and will not be visible from Earth. This phase occurs at 16:39..
►11 February 2016 - The moon reaches perigee, the closest point to Earth (364358 km from Earth) at 4:42.

►15 February 2016 - the first quarter of the moon. at 9:46.
►16 February 2016 - Aldebaran 0.3 ° S from the Moon at 9:41.
►21 February 2016 - Mercury at aphelion. The planet will be at its farthest point from the Sun at 19:00.
►22 February 2016 - Full Moon. Earth will be between the Sun and Moon, and therefore, the Moon will be fully illuminated as seen from Earth. This phase occurs at 20:20.

►27 February 2016 - Comet 147 P / Kushida Muramatsu reaches perihelion, the closest position of the sun. It has a 7.42-year orbit. Its return was observed 3 times.
►27 February 2016 - Moon at apogee. The moon reaches the furthest point from the Earth (405383 km from Earth) at 5:28.

March.
►02 March 2016 - Comet 194P / LINEAR reaches perihelion, the closest position of the sun. It has a 8.01-year orbit. Its return was observed 2 times.
►02 March 2016 - the last quarter moon. at 1:11.
►06 March 2016 - Comet D / Denning (1894 F1) reaches perihelion, the closest position of the sun. It has a 8.01-year orbit. Her return has been seen 1 times.

 
Read full calendar

http://lupuvictor.blogspot.com/2015/12/astronomical-calendar-2016-astronomy.html