For anyone who has any interest in planets and the skies above, 2018 is jammed packed with events in our solar system.
I'm no astrophysicist, I just like to observe everything around me.
The other day my son read out to me just how jammed-packed our calendar is for 2018.
For ten out of twelve months we have light shows. I can't recall any past year like this.
31st of Jan: (Tonight in Australia) we have a "super blue blood moon" which only happens once every 400 years. It is a "solar eclipse" at night, but not a "lunar eclipse".
15th of Feb: Solar eclipse.
2nd & 31st of March: Blue moon.
16th to 25th of April: Lyrids meteor shower.
6th & 7th of May: Hailey's comet tear. Remnants of hailey's comet.
July: Red moon.
12th & 13th of August: Perseids meteor shower.
2nd of Oct: Orionids meteor shower.
17th & 18th of Nov: Leonid meteor shower.
7th & 17th of Dec: Geminides meteor shower.
BTW, I saw Hailey's comet back in 1986. The next passing of Hailey's comet is 2061. See ya there. lol