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| - | ====== Sky Highlights and NEKAAL Events for DECEMBER 2015 ====== | ||
| - | * No NEKAAL Events for December--happy holidays! | ||
| - | * December 3 -- Last Quarter (moon absent from evening sky)\\ | ||
| - | * December 11 -- __**New Moon**__\\ | ||
| - | * December 18 -- First Quarter\\ | ||
| - | * December 25 -- Full Moon | ||
| - | * January 28, 2016 -- First General Meeting of the New Year, Topeka Library, 7 pm. | ||
| - | ===== PLANETS in December 2015 ===== | ||
| - | Evening Sky: | ||
| - | * **Mercury** -- low in southwest | ||
| - | * **Uranus** -- in southeast | ||
| - | * **Neptune** -- in south | ||
| - | Midnight: | + | For sky highlights see: |
| - | * **Jupiter** -- in east | + | |
| - | * **Uranus** -- in west | + | |
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| - | Morning Sky: | + | |
| - | * **Saturn** -- in southeast | + | |
| - | * **Venus** -- in southeast | + | |
| - | * **Mars** -- in southeast | + | |
| - | * **Jupiter** -- in south | + | |
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| - | ===== CONSTELLATIONS well placed in evening during December 2015 ===== | + | |
| - | North to South, at 7-9 pm: | + | |
| - | * **Ursa Minor**, the Little Bear, also the Little Dipper | + | |
| - | * **Cepheus**, the King of Ethiopia | + | |
| - | * **Cassiopeia**, the Queen of Ethiopia | + | |
| - | * **Lacerta**, the Lizard | + | |
| - | * **Andromeda**, daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia | + | |
| - | * **Pegasus**, the winged horse | + | |
| - | * **Aries**, the ram | + | |
| - | * **Pisces**, the fishes (who had been Aphrodite and Eros) | + | |
| - | * **Cetus**, the sea monster | + | |
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| - | ===== SKY EXTRAS in December 2015 ===== | + | |
| - | * **Venus** puts on a show in December's pre-dawn hours, in the southeast sky, spending some time near bright star Spica. Look a little higher for orange-red **Mars**, and higher still for bright yellow-white **Jupiter**. | + | |
| - | * **Mercury**'s back in the evening sky, late in December. Look above the southwestern horizon just after sunset. Binoculars help--by the end of the month it may well be visible naked-eye on very clear evenings. | + | |
| - | * The **Geminid meteor shower** will be moonless this year, peaking early morning December 14. Look at 1-3 am, in a wide region almost directly overhead. | + | |
| - | * Comet **Catalina C/2013 US10** will be visible in binoculars all month, rising through the eastern sky during December. Look in Virgo, moving into Bootes by month end. | + | |
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| + | [[http://www.astronomy.com/observing/sky-this-week|Astronomy Magazine's Sky This Week]] | ||
