For the astrology of the Total Solar Eclipse in Leo tomorrow, and general inspiration, please see this new article by Eric Francis.

The New Moon is at 10:12:34 UT tomorrow at 9° Leo 31′49″ (minor planet chart here). The time of Maximum Eclipse, i.e., the time the Moon’s shadow comes closest to aligning with the centre of the Earth, is a few minutes later at 10:21:09 UT. The Moon then goes on to occult nearby Mercury at 15:36:11 UT (12° Leo 52′55″).

This eclipse is conjunct Mercury, square Asbolus and Vesta in Taurus, and opposite Nessus in Aquarius. Please also see Kirsti’s article here for more on those.

Full details of the path of the Moon’s shadow, and when and where the eclipse will be visible, are here, and there will be a live webcast here.

Gorgeous graphic right: Alys’s Universe by Alys, my favourite artist.

I’ve added Makemake’s aspects to the 2008 Centaur/TNO aspectarian here, which now also shows all eclipses, occultations, Moon phases and Mercury shadow dates. Same for the Today page.

Below are Makemake’s major aspects to the end of this year:

Monday 04 August 2008

09:41:33 UT - Makemake (23 vi 18′55″) sextile Ceres (23 cn 18′55″)

Friday 08 August 2008

23:17:43 UT - Makemake (23 vi 24′10″) conjunct Mars (23 vi 24′10″)

Sunday 24 August 2008

18:06:05 UT - Makemake (23 vi 44′5″) conjunct Mercury (23 vi 44′5″)

Monday 25 August 2008

12:28:08 UT - Makemake (23 vi 45′7″) conjunct Venus (23 vi 45′7″)

Friday 12 September 2008

12:06:55 UT - Makemake (24 vi 10′9″) conjunct Eros (24 vi 10′9″)

Tuesday 16 September 2008

18:58:24 UT - Makemake (24 vi 16′15″) conjunct Sun (24 vi 16′15″)

Wednesday 17 September 2008

17:03:00 UT - Makemake (24 vi 17′33″) sextile Psyche (24 sc 17′33″)

Monday 06 October 2008

03:18:06 UT - Makemake (24 vi 43′27″) conjunct Okyrhoe (24 vi 43′27″)

Tuesday 07 October 2008

21:54:23 UT - Makemake (24 vi 45′52″) trine Thereus (24 ta 45′52″ Rx)

Tuesday 14 October 2008

13:51:35 UT - Makemake (24 vi 54′42″) sextile Venus (24 sc 54′42″)

Thursday 16 October 2008

04:47:25 UT - Makemake (24 vi 56′47″) square Juno (24 sa 56′47″)

Saturday 08 November 2008

19:14:22 UT - Makemake (25 vi 23′38″) square Venus (25 sa 23′38″)

Sunday 09 November 2008

21:41:07 UT - Makemake (25 vi 24′41″) sextile Mars (25 sc 24′41″)

Monday 17 November 2008

12:16:31 UT - Makemake (25 vi 31′21″) sextile Sun (25 sc 31′21″)

Thursday 20 November 2008

12:00:47 UT - Makemake (25 vi 33′41″) sextile Mercury (25 sc 33′41″)

Tuesday 25 November 2008

06:04:59 UT - Makemake (25 vi 37′1″) square Mean BML (25 sa 37′1″)

Friday 28 November 2008

14:45:51 UT - Makemake (25 vi 39′6″) sextile Eros (25 sc 39′6″)
16:32:36 UT - Makemake (25 vi 39′9″) sextile Amycus (25 sc 39′9″)

Thursday 04 December 2008

07:20:17 UT - Makemake (25 vi 42′5″) trine Venus (25 cp 42′5″)

Tuesday 09 December 2008

16:51:26 UT - Makemake (25 vi 44′15″) square Mercury (25 sa 44′15″)

Tuesday 16 December 2008

07:18:21 UT - Makemake (25 vi 46′2″) square Psyche (25 sa 46′2″)

Wednesday 17 December 2008

08:21:20 UT - Makemake (25 vi 46′13″) square Sun (25 sa 46′13″)

Thursday 18 December 2008

00:36:14 UT - Makemake (25 vi 46′20″) trine Jupiter (25 cp 46′20″)

Sunday 21 December 2008

15:54:29 UT - Makemake (25 vi 46′44″) square Mars (25 sa 46′44″)

Wednesday 24 December 2008

17:29:42 UT - Makemake stations retrograde (25 vi 46′50″)

Monday 29 December 2008

06:26:52 UT - Makemake (25 vi 46′36″ Rx) trine Mercury (25 cp 46′36″)

The names below were added to the Minor Planet Center list overnight, including Makemake (2005 FY9), the newly named TNO / Dwarf Planet / Plutoid, currently at 23+ Virgo.

Makemake is now shown on all the ephemeris and chart pages on this site; it’s listed under TNOs at the moment, although I should probably change that to Dwarf Planet.

You can get the positions of the other new asteroids below (or any other named object) by using the “additional objects” option on those pages (enter the minor planet numbers separated by commas).

(21501) Acevedo
(21497) Alicehine
(20657) Alvarez-Candal
(21582) Arunvenkataraman
(21821) Billryan
(20366) Bonev
(21459) Chrisrussell
(21502) Cruz
(21782) Davemcdonald
(20897) Deborahdomingue
(21822) Degiorgi
(21530) Despiau
(21887) Dipippo
(21965) Dones
(21888) Durech
(156879) Elois
(20367) Erikagibb
(21581) Ernestoruiz
(21495) Feaga
(21457) Fevig
(20608) Fredmerlin
(12610) Hafez
(20467) Hibbitts
(20360) Holsapple
(20741) Jeanmichelreess
(21619) Johnshopkins
(20730) Jorgecarvano
(21964) Kevinhousen
(21945) Kleshchonok
(20363) Komitov
(21776) Kryszczynska
(159164) La Canada
(21496) Lijianyang
(136472) Makemake
(20731) Mothediniz
(21577) Negron
(21774) O’Brien
(21499) Perillat
(21580) Portalatin
(20361) Romanishin
(21962) Scottsandford
(20740) Semery
(21458) Susank
(20896) Tiphene
(20362) Trilling
(21775) Tsiganis
(21500) Vasquez
(20607) Vernazza
(20465) Vervack
(20606) Widemann

You can now list the phases of the Moon for any given year from the Moons page. You just need to click the checkbox. Thanks.