Amazing Astronomy

             Jupiter and the moon :
                                The moon will pass just south of Jupiter soon after moonrise in the eastern sky. The two brightest star clusters in the sky, the Hyades and the Pleiades, are nearby.


     Mercury will be well placed in the morning sky for observers in the northern hemisphere for the first half of the month.
    Venus is still a morning “star,” shining brightly before sunrise.
    Mars has faded into the west moving behind the sun. It moves from Sagittarius into Capricornus on December 25.
    Saturn is now a morning star.
    Uranus is visible all evening in Pisces. It sets around 1 a.m.
    Neptune remains in the depths of Aquarius all month, and sets around 10 p.m.