| 4 |
New moon, 2:34am EST. Totally eclipse of the sun for parts of Africa and
Australia. |
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Orrery Animation
(takes about a minute)
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| 6 |
Venus and Mars pass with 1.6° of each other before dawn.
Venus crescent reaches maximum size. |
See in Orrery |
| 7 |
Earliest Sunrise at 40° N lattitude |
| 11 |
First quarter moon, 10:49 EST |
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in Orrery
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| 14 |
Peak of Geminid meteor |
| 16 |
Saturn is in opposition to the Sun. |
| 19 |
Full Moon, 2:10pm EST. |
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in Orrery
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| 19 |
The shadow of Jupiter's moon Europa falls on its moon Io at
11:50pm EST. The plane in which Jupiter's moons orbit is only aligned
with Earth twice during Jupiter's orbit of about 6 years. So
occultations of Jupiter's moons typically occur several times over a
two or three month period, and then not again for another 3 years.
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in Orrery
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| 21 |
Winter Solistice, 8:21pm EST |
| 24 |
Mercury gibbous phase at maximum illumintaion. |
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in Orrery
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| 25 |
Mercury reaches greatest elongation 20° east of the Sun. |
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| 26 |
Last quarter Moon, 7:31pm EST. |
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in Orrery
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