Wednesday evening January 20th the 8-day old first quarter Moon will be about 4o from the outer planet Uranus and about 6o from Mars. Over the next couple of days Mars and Uranus will be separated by about 1-2o as the faster moving Mars passes by Uranus.
Earlier in the evening outer Planet Neptune and two Dwarf Planets, Eris and Ceres are also above the horizon. However with apparent magnitudes ranging from 8.0 to 19.0 none of these three would be visible without some sort of optical assistance,
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Friday April 12th the 7-day old waxing gibbous Moon will be crossing the plane of the ecliptic moving north relative to the ecliptic. This is known as the ascending node, one of two intersections the Moon’s orbital path has with the ecliptic. The ecliptic is actually the Earth’s orbit and the Moon’s orbit is inclined about 6o from the ecliptic. So there are two node intersections, the 
On the day of the node crossing the 7-day old first quarter Moon rises around mid-day and sets the following day. 
This conjunction will look good through binoculars or a low-power wide-field telescope eyepiece. 
The Moon reaches perigee, (minimum distance from Earth), this month on Monday March 26th. At that time the Moon will more or less be at a distance of 28.90 Earth diameters (369,106 km or 229352 miles) from the Earth.
