Date Event 1 January 2018 Mars three finger-widths from Jupiter in the morning skies 2 January 2018 Perigee ("Super") Moon 7 January 2018 Jupiter and Mars at their closest, less than half a finger-width apart 12 January 2018 Crescent Moon, Mars and Jupiter form a triangle 13 January 2018 Mercury less than a finger-width from Saturn in the morning sky 15 January 2018 thin crescent Moon near Mercury and Saturn 27-31 January 2018 Asteroid Ceres visible in binoculars 31 January 2018 Blue Moon, Total Lunar Eclipse ~11pm AEST 8 February 2018 Waning Moon close to Jupiter in Morning sky 10 February 2018 Waning Moon close to Mars 13 February 2018 Crescent Moon close to Saturn 4 March 2018 Venus and Mercury very close, low in the evening twilight 7 March 2018 Moon close to Jupiter 10-11 March 2018 Moon close to Mars 11-12 March 2018 Moon close to Saturn 19 March 2018 thin crescent Moon close to Mercury and Venus in evening twilight 20 March 2018 Mars close to Triffid Nebula 1-3 April 2018 Mars and globular cluster M22 less than a finger-width apart in morning sky 2 April 2018 Mars and Saturn close, a finger-width apart 3 April 2018 Moon close to Jupiter in evening sky 15 April 2018 thin crescent Moon close to Mercury in morning twilight 18 April 2018 crescent Moon close to Venus in evening sky 30 April 2018 Moon close to Jupiter in evening sky 1-30 May 2018 Saturn within 2finger-widths of globular cluster M22, closest on the 15th 4 May 2018 Moon close to Saturn 6 May 2018 Moon close to Mars 6 May 2018 Eta Aquariid meteor shower. 9 May 2018 Jupiter at opposition 14-15 May 2018 Mars less than half a finger-width from globular cluster M75 17-18 May 2018 crescent Moon close to Venus 21 May 2018 Venus close to M35 27 May 2018 Moon close to Jupiter 1 June 2018 Moon and Saturn close 3 June 2018 Moon and Mars close 16 June 2018 Crescent Moon near Venus 19 June 2018 Asteroid Vesta at opposition, potentially visible with the unaided eye 20 June 2018 Venus in the Beehive cluster 21 June 2018 crescent Moon and Venus close 23 June 2018 Moon and Jupiter close 27 June 2018 Saturn at opposition 28 June 2018 Saturn close to the Moon 1 July 2018 Mars and Moon close 4 July 2018 Mercury close to Beehive cluster 13 July 2018 Partial Eclipse of the sun, visible only southern SA and VIC 15 July 2018 thin crescent Moon and Mercury close in the twilight 16 July 2018 crescent Moon and Venus close 21 July 2018 Moon and Jupiter close 25 July 2018 Moon and Saturn close 27 July 2018 Mars at Opposition, the best since 2003 28 July 2018 Total Lunar Eclipse, early morning 30 July 2018 Southern Delta Aquarids meteor shower 14 August 2018 Crescent Moon close to Venus 17 August 2018 Moon close to Jupiter 21 August 2018 Moon close to Saturn 30 August 2018 Saturn close to Triffid Nebula 1-2 September 2018 Venus and Spica close 12-13 September 2018 Crescent Moon close to Venus 14 September 2018 crescent Moon close to Jupiter 18 September 2018 Moon close to Saturn 20 September 2018 Moon and Mars close 10-20 October 2018 All 5 bright planets visible in early evening sky 10 October 2018 Mercury and Crescent Moon close 11 October 2018 crescent Moon near Venus 12 October 2018 crescent Moon close to Jupiter 15 October 2018 Moon close to Saturn 16 October 2018 Venus and Mercury close 18 October 2018 Moon close to Mars. 22 October 2018 Orionid meteor shower 28 October 2018 Mercury and Jupiter close 9 November 2018 Jupiter crescent Moon close 11 November 2018 Crescent Moon and Saturn close 16 November 2018 Moon close to Mars 17 November 2018 Leonid Meteor Shower 26 November 2018 Variable star Mira at its brightest 1-20 December 2018 Comet 46P potentially visible to the unaided eye 4 December 2018 Crescent Moon close to Venus in morning twilight 9 December 2018 Crescent Moon close to Saturn in evening twilight 15 December 2018 Geminid Meteor shower 14-15 December 2018 Moon close to Mars 22 December 2018 Jupiter and Mercury very close in dawn sky

The planets on 13 October 2018 at 21:15 ACDST, 45 minutes after sunset, All 5 bright classical planets, Neptune and the crescent Moon form a line in the evening twilight. Uranus is just rising at this time. Click to embiggen.The table below shows significant astronomical events that can be seen with the unaided eye or minimal equipment in 2018 in Australia (and to some degree elsewhere in the Southern Hemisphere, ocultations and eclipses are very region specific) are listed in this table.Close pairings of the Moon and bright planets are given special attention as not only is the Moon a ready guide to locating the planets if you are not familiar with them, these massings are rather beautiful.Special events areSadly, the partial solar eclipse is just visible from parts of southern Australia, but we have two good total lunar eclipses, the best for some years, and there are a number of beautiful planetary events to keep us occupied. There may even be an unaided eye comet and asteroid Vesta should be visible to the unaided eye too.reader Scott has created an iCal for this list that you can import into your calendar. I have htmlised the link http://subscriptions.thismonkey.com//fixtures/astro/calendars/astro/2018/1/astro_1_2018.ics

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