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Volume 20 -- Issue 12
Planet Watch -- December 2014
Mercury moves into superior conjunction, on the opposite side of the Sun and so it will not be visible
until the end of the month when it reappears in the evening skies.
Venus is now moving away from superior conjunction toward the east (left) side of the Sun. By the end of the month Venus should
be high enough above the western horizon to become visible.
Mars stays visible in the evening skies over the southwestern horizon at sunset, setting about two hours
after the Sun. Mars is nearly at its perihelion and it is late spring in the
southern hemisphere.
Jupiter rises before midnight local time and is visible all night near the star Regulus in Leo.
Saturn moves out from superior conjunction and becomes visible over the eastern horizon
at sunset local time. Look for Saturn to be a few degrees west from the reddish star Antares in Scorpius.
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