Description
The Fifty Year Almanac of Astronomical Events: 2021 to 2070 is a catalog listing a wide range of solar system phenomena as seen from Earth. Each year gives a concise compendium of the most conspicuous and/or significant astronomical events involving the Sun, Moon and the planets. The astronomical events include the following. – solar and lunar eclipses – phases of the Moon – apogees and perigees of the Moon – Equinoxes and Solstices of Earth – aphelion and perihelion (Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus) – oppositions and conjunctions of the planets – elongations of Mercury and Venus – close conjunctions of the Moon with the planets and bright stars – close conjunctions of planets with bright stars and other planets – peak of major meteor showers The date and time of each event is given in Greenwich Mean Time (= Coordinated Universal Time). With 200+ events each year, the Fifty Year Almanac includes over 10,200 astronomical events.
