2020 Events
January
January 3-4: Quadrantids meteor shower
January 10: penumbral lunar eclipse
February
February 15: Saturn, Jupiter and Mars form a nice line in the southeast dawn sky
February 18: Occultation of Mars by the Moon at dawn
March
March 18: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and the crescent moon in the southeast dawn sky
April
April 3: Venus passes through the Pleiades
May
May 21: Venus and Mercury 1deg apart in the dusk sky<
June
June 5: penumbral lunar eclipse
June 19: Crescent Moon occults Venus at dawn
June 21: solar eclipse (visible from Africa and Asia)
July
July 17: Launch of Mars 2020 spacecraft, arriving Feb 18, 2021
August
August date TBD: OSIRIS-REx to land on asteroid Bennu for a sample collecting and return
August 1: Full Moon next to Jupiter and Saturn
August 11-12: Perseid meteor shower
September
September 5: Moon meets Mars in the evening sky
October
October 6: Mars at its brightest and closest to Earth (62 million km)
December
December 13-14: Geminid meteor shower
December 14: total solar eclipse (visible from Chile and Argentina)
December 21: Jupiter and Saturn just 6 arc minutes apart
