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Volume 22 -- Issue 12
Sky Watch Calendar -- December 2016
01.
Neptune at
Eastern Quadrature
02.
Waxing Crescent Moon Near
Venus
04.
Waxing Crescent Moon Near
Mars
06.
Moon at
Descending Node
Waxing Crescent Moon Near
Neptune
07.
First Quarter Moon
09.
Waxing Gibbous Moon Near
Uranus
10.
Saturn at Solar
Conjunction
11.
Mercury at Eastern
Elongation
12.
Waxing Gibbous Moon Near
Aldebaran
Moon at
Perigee
- 356,509 km
14.
Full Moon
Geminid Meteor
Shower Peak
16.
Waning Gibbous Moon Near
M-44
17.
Waning Gibbous Moon Passes
Regulus
18.
Sun
Does
Enter the Astronomical
Sign of
Sagittarius
19.
Moon at
Acscending Node
21.
Last Quarter Moon
December Solstice (10:44 UT 4:44 am CST)
The Sun
Does Not
Enter the Astrological Sign of
Capricornus
22.
Mars and Jupiter at
Heliocentric
Opposition
Waning Crescent Moon Near
Jupiter
23.
Waning Crescent Moon Near
Spica
25.
Moon at
Apogee
- 405,870 km
28.
Mercury at Inferior
Conjunction
29.
New Moon
Neptune Ends Retrograde Motion
31.
Mars Near
Neptune
Waxing Crescent Moon near
Comet
45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková