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Date

Jul 1

Event

Mars and Venus are very close together, visible low in the evening sky 40-50 minutes after sunset, staying there for around a week before being swallowed by the solar glare around the month’s end

Date

Jul 3

Event

Full Buck Moon, directly opposite the Sun, as full Moons always are, and since the noontime summer Sun is as high as it ever gets, the midnight full Moon is as low as it ever gets, just 25 degrees above the horizon

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Jul 6

Event

Earth at aphelion, 1.017 AU (95 million miles) from the Sun, as distant as it ever gets

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Jul 9

Event

Last quarter Moon and solar observing (open to the public) at Pioneer Works, from 1-4 pm, at 159 Pioneer Street in Brooklyn

Date

Jul 10-13 & 28-29

Event

Excellent overpasses of NYC by the International Space Station (ISS); on each occasion, the object first appears low in the west, then moves roughly overhead three minutes later, and then disappears roughly in the east another three minutes later--starting times: Jul 10, 10:12:55 pm EDT; Jul 11, 9:20:26 pm; Jul 12, 10:12:16 pm; Jul 13, 9:20:26 pm; Jul 28, 9:51:12 pm; Jul 29, 9:01:09 pm

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Jul 14 & 28

Event

From 8-10 pm, weather permitting, the New York Amateur Astronomers Association will hold a telescopic observing session at Lincoln Center (near the fountain)