Fifty Year Almanac of Astronomical Events - 2021 to 2070

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.