Amazing Astronomy

Sky Watching

2012,December 9-11

         Sun., December 9, 3 a.m

                    Vesta at opposition :

                                      Now that Ceres has been promoted from an asteroid to a dwarf planet, Vesta has become the largest and brightest of the asteroids, at magnitude 6.2, it is slightly too faint to be visible naked eye, but is an easy object in binoculars.

       Tue., December 11, dawn    

                 Mercury, Venus and the moon :

                                                      The slender waning crescent moon passes just below Venus, with Mercury nearby.

 Mars has faded into the west moving behind the sun

 Jupiter is in Taurus, close to Aldebaran and the Hyades

Sky Map Around Dawn

( sky map over N.America)

(sky map over S.America)

(sky map over Africa)

(sky map over Europe)

(sky map over Asia)

(sky map over Australia)