2026 February Astronomy Highlights

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Your guide to the night sky this month,
and a guide for binoculars, and telescope deaf owners,
compiled by Derek Rowley
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2026 February

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All the times are shown in Universal Times (UT),
applicable for Milton Keynes.

Sunday 1st

• Full Moon
  (Snow Moon)

Monday 2nd thru Tuesday 3rd

• Moon and Regulus

Wednesday 4th

• Ganymede, its shadow & GRS

Friday 6th

• Moon & Spica in Virgo

Monday 9th

• Last Quarter Moon

Tuesday 10th

• The Moon at apogee

Wednesday 11th

• Moon & Antares

Thursday 12th

• Double shadow on Jupiter

Thursday 12th

• Straight-line alignment of three Jupiter’s moons.

Wednesday 18th

• Moon & Mercury

Thursday 19th

• Mercury at greatest elongation east

Friday 20th

• Mercury reaches its highest altitude.

Friday 20th

• Moon and Saturn

Sunday 22nd

• Ganymede slowly appearing beside Jupiter.

Monday 23rd

• Moon & Seven Sisters (M45)

Tuesday 24th

• First Quarter Moon

Tuesday 24th

• Lunar X & V

Tuesday 24th

• The Moon at perigee.

Thursday 26th

• Conjunction of Venus and Mercury

Thurs 26th – Sat 28th

• Moon passes Jupiter.

Saturday 28th

• Moon passes M44 (The Beehive Cluster).

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