Monday, December 19, 2022
Thursday December 22 to Thursday December 29
The New Moon is Friday December 23. Jupiter is easy to see as brightest object in the evening sky aside from the Moon. The Crescent Moon visits Saturn on the 26th, then is very close to Jupiter on the 29th. Bright Mars and the red stars Aldebaran and Betelgeuse form a triangle. Mercury and Venus climb higher in the evening twilight.on the 24th the thin crescent Moon forms a triangle with Venus and Mercury.
The New Moon is Friday December 23. The Moon is at perigee, when it is closest to the earth on the 24th.
Evening sky on Saturday, December 24 as seen from Adelaide at 21:0
ACDST, (30 minutes after sunset, click
to embiggen). Venus and Mercury are low above the horizon in the twilight and are joined by the crescent Moon. You will need a low, unobstructed horizon to see them clearly.
Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent
local time (30 minutes after sunset).
Evening sky on Saturday, December 24 as seen from Adelaide at 22:17 ACDST, 90 minutes after sunset (click
to embiggen). Mars, and the red stars Aldebaran and Betelgeuse form a triangle.
Mars was at opposition, when was at its biggest and brightest as seen from Earth, on the 8th, but is still an excellent sight. The inset is the telescopic view at this time.
Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time (90 minutes after sunset).
Saturn forms a line with delta and gamma Capricornii low in thewest with Jupiter to the north-west.The crescent Moon and Jupiter are close enough to fit into a binocular field.
The insets are the telescopic views of Saturn and Jupiter at the same magnification at this time.
Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent
local time (90 minutes after sunset).
Between the bright star Canopus and the Southern Cross are another wealth of binocular objects to discover.
Elsewhere
in Australia will see a similar view at the equivalent time (90 minutes after sunset).
Mercury climbs out of the twilight.
Venus climbs out of the twilight.
Mars and the red stars Aldebaran and Betelgeuse form a triangle. Mars was at opposition, when it was biggest and brightest as seen from Earth, on December 8th, but is still a very worthwhile sight.
Jupiter is at its highest higher in the late evening sky. Jupiter was at opposition, when it was biggest and brightest as seen from Earth, on the 27th of September. Jupiter is visible all evening.
Saturn forms a line with delta and gamma Capricornii. Saturn was at opposition, when it was biggest and brightest as seen from Earth, on the 15th of August.
Star Map via Virtual sky. Use your mouse to scroll around and press 8 when your pointer is in the map to set to the current time.
Cloud cover predictions can be found at SkippySky.
Here is the near-real time satellite view of the clouds (day and night) http://satview.bom.gov.au/
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