The July StarDial
Jehana 

Sun Jul  4 10:14:55 1999
The July 1999 StarDial:*p*  Jul 01 - Asteroid 2201 Oljato Near-Earth Flyby (0.398 AU)*p*  Jul 03 - Comet C/1998 T1 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (0.485 AU)*br*  Jul 03 - Asteroid 1999 KU4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.385 AU)*p*  Jul 04 - Asteroid 1999 CE9 Closest Approach To Earth (0.483 AU)*p*  Jul 06 - Moon's last quarter at 7:57 am EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)*br*  Jul 06 - Earth is at aphelion (94.5 million miles / 1.017 AU from the sun) at 6 pm EDT*p*  Jul 07 - Asteroid 1999 MN Near-Earth Flyby (0.064 AU)*br*  Jul 07 - Asteroid 1999 MM Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)*br*  Jul 07 - Asteroid 1999 HX1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.186 AU)*br*  Jul 07 - Moon passes 4° south of Jupiter at 11 am EDT*br*  Jul 07, 1339 - This was an annular-total eclipse, with the total part of*br*the track finding its way between the Orkney and Shetland Islands without*br*touching either. At this location the track of totality was only 1 km wide,*br*with a duration of 1 second! Presuming that you could position a boat to an*br*accuracy of 1 km, totality must have been a ring of Baily's Beads. (SW-UK*br*Eclipse's)*p*  Jul 09 - 20th Anniversary (1979), Voyager 2 Flyby Of Jupiter*p*  Jul 10 - Moon Occults Aldebaran *br*  Jul 10 - Asteroid 5693 (1993 EA) Near-Earth Flyby (0.346 AU)*br*  Jul 10, 0028 - This two and a half minute eclipse crossed south western*br*Ireland and Cornwall before the Sun set in France shortly afterwards.*br*(SW-UK Eclipse's)*p*  Jul 11 - Moon is at perigee (224,798 miles from Earth) at 2:09 am EDT *br*  Jul 11 - 20th Anniversary (1979), Skylab Re-Enters Into Earth's Atmosphere*p*  Jul 12 - Dark Moon at 10:24 pm EDT*p*  Jul 13 - Venus passes 1.5° south of Regulus at 3 am EDT*br*  Jul 13, 2018 - Next solar eclipse on a Friday the 13 th.  The last solar*br*eclipse on a Friday 13 th was in December 1974.  Both are partial solar*br*eclipses.  There are 24 solar eclipses on a Friday the 13 th between 0 and*br*3000.  Of which 13 partial, 9 annular and 2 total solar eclipses.  The most*br*odd is the one of 13.03.313 which was an annular eclipse.*p*  Jul 14 - The moon passes 3° north of Mercury at 5 am EDT*br*  Jul 14 - Venus At Its Greatest Brillancy (-4.5 Magnitude) at 3 pm EDT*p*  Jul 15 - Moon passes 3° north of Venus at 7 pm EDT*br* *br*  Jul 16 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Apollo 11 Launch (1st Manned Moon Landing)*br*  Jul 16-22 - 5th Anniversary (1994), Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impacts Jupiter*br*  Jul 16, 1330 - A short Eclipse at under 1 minute, but yet another for*br*northern Scotland. The Orkney and Shetland Islands are blessed with more*br*Total Eclipses than anywhere else in the UK. Although this Eclipse did not*br*cross these islands, it came pretty close. The Eclipse track traveled into*br*Holland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and*br*sets in Turkey.*br* *br*  Jul 19 - Asteroid 1999 HX2 Closest Approach To Earth (0.481 AU)*br*  Jul 19, 0418 - First report of a comet discovered during a solar eclipse,*br*seen by the historian Philostorgius in Asia Minor. Many chronicles do*br*mention this observation (12 western, 3 Byzantine).  Philostorgius mentions*br*that the sun was eclipsed at the 8 th hour of the day. In his sketch there*br*is a comet. This Total Solar Eclipse was from the Caribbean, Bay of Bengal,*br*north Spain, central Italy, little Asia and ends in the north of India.*br* *br*  Jul 20 - Moon's first quarter at 5:00 am EDT*br*  Jul 20 - Asteroid 1999 LN28 Near-Earth Flyby (0.132 AU)*br*  Jul 20 - 30th Anniversary (1969), 1st Man On The Moon (Apollo 11)*br* *br*  Jul 22 - Asteroid 1999 JB Closest Approach To Earth (0.420 AU)*br*  Jul 22, 2028 - Christmas Island will get a total solar eclipse on 22 July*br*2028 with almost 4 minutes of totality.  There will be a Partial Solar*br*Eclipse on Christmas Day, December 25, 2038 (mag. of 0.845).  On December*br*26, 2019 there is a partial eclipse of magnitude 0.658 on the same island.  *br*Plan your vacations accordingly.*br*  Jul 22, 2381 - The maximum theoretical length for a British total eclipse*br*is 5.5 minutes.  The eclipse of June 16, 885 lasted for almost 5 minutes*br*and the same will  be true for the Scottish  total eclipse of 22 July 2381.  *br*For the long-range planning completist.*p*  Jul 23 - Moon is at apogee (251,609 miles from Earth) at 1:45 am EDT*br* *br*  Jul 28 - Full Moon at 7:25 am EDT*br*  Jul 28 - Partial Lunar Eclipse.  It will begin at 10:22 Universal Time, but the *br*primary viewers will be on the Pacific west coast and Hawaii, where as much as 40% of an *br*eclipse may be observed.  (Maximum will fall at 4:34 Pacific Daylight Time).  North American *br*east coast viewers will see the beginnings of the eclipse, barring cloud cover...  *br*  Jul 28 - 35th Anniversary (1964), Ranger 7 Launch (Moon Impact Mission)*br*  Jul 28, 1851 - The first photograph of a total eclipse was taken in 1851 by*br*Berkowski in Konigsbert, East Prussia.*p*  Jul 29 - Deep Space 1, Asteroid 1992 KD Encounter *br*  Jul 29 - South Delta-Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak*br*  Jul 29, 1878 - Height of search for intra-Mercurial planet Vulcan using*br*eclipses to block the Sun.  Several observers claim sightings, but they are*br*never confirmed.  The problem is finally resolved by Einstein in his*br*general theory of relativity in 1916. (Never found, of course.)*br* *br*  Jul 30 - Asteroid 1999 JM8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.057 AU)*p*  Jul 31 - Lunar Prospector Crashes On The Moon*br*  Jul 31 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Mariner 6 Mars Flyby*p*Add 5 hours to EDT times to get Universal Time (UT).*p**br*Sources:  *p*Astronomy Magazine:  http://www.astronomy.com/*p*Solar Eclipse Newsletter:  http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SENL/SENLinde.htm*p*Space Calendar:  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/*p*