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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+
  
-===== CONSTELLATIONS well placed in evening during December 2015 ===== +[[http://​www.skyandtelescope.com/​observing/​sky-at-a-glance/​|Sky ​and Telescope'​s Sky at a glance]] \\ 
-North to South, ​at 7-9 pm: +OR \\ 
-  * **Ursa Minor**, the Little Bear, also the Little Dipper +[[http://​www.astronomy.com/​observing/​sky-this-week|Astronomy Magazine'​s Sky This Week]] ​
-  * **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+
  
-===== 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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