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The First Quarter Moon is Monday December 8. There is an opportunity to see the Lunar X in daytime.  In the evening Venus leaves Sagittarius behind and is coming closer to Saturn. Saturn is close to the first quarter Moon and there is a daytime occultation of Saturn as seen from Darwin. Jupiter is now visible in the evening sky along with Saturn and Venus. In the morning Mars and Jupiter continue to draw apart. Mars remains within a binocular distance of the Beehive cluster.

The First Quarter Moon is Monday December 8. The Moon is at perigee, when it is closest to the Earth, on the 12th.

Western evening sky on Saturday, December 8 as seen from Adelaide at 21:23 ACDST (60 minutes after sunset, click to embiggen).   

Venus is readily visible for early twilight to when the sky is fully dark. Venus is leaving Sagittarius behind and is coming closer to Saturn, with the Moon between them.

The inset is the telescopic view of Venus at this time.

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time (60 minutes after sunset). 

The eastern  sky at 17:17 ACST Sunday, December 8 as seen from Darwin .

Saturn is about to be occulted by the Moon. The inset shows the telescopic view of Saturn and the this time. (click to embiggen).
The other inset shows the Lunar X as seen at 0236 UT (14:36 AEDST, 13:36 AEST, 14:06 AEDST, 1306 ACST the Moon is on the horizon in WA)

 

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time (90 minutes after sunset).

Eastern evening sky on Saturday, December 7 as seen from Adelaide at 22:06 ACDST (90 minutes after sunset), Jupiter is rising in the east.

The inset is the telescope view of the Jupiter at this time (Io is eclipsed by Jupiter).  (click to embiggen).

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at roughly the equivalent local time (90 minutes after sunset).

Northern morning sky on Saturday, December 7 as seen from Adelaide at 04:49 ACDST (60 minutes before sunrise), Mars and Jupiter form a line with the red star Aldebaran.  Mars is within binocular range of the iconic Beehive cluster. The inset is the binocular view at this time.

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at roughly the equivalent local time (60 minutes before sunrise).


 

Whole sky on Saturday, December 7 as seen from Adelaide at 21:57 ACDST, 90 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen).

Jupiter is rising in the east Saturn is now above the north-western horizon and coming closer to Venus. as the tails of Scorpius disappears in the west. Orion  the hunter is rising in the east. The Southern Cross is low in the Southern sky.  The moon is waxing and the fainter clusters and nebula are becoming harder to see.

    

 

 Elsewhere in Australia will see a similar view at the equivalent time (90 minutes after sunset).

Mercury is lost in the twilight.

Venus climbs higher in the evening twilight and is readily visible in the evening twilight. Venus leaves Sagittarius behind and is coming closer to Saturn. on the 6th and 7th the waxing Moon is between Venus and Saturn.

Mars is rising in the morning sky and near Jupiter. The pair continue to draw apart as as Mars passes into Cancer. Mars is within binocular distance of  the beehive on from December 8-14.

Jupiter is rising in the the evening sky when the sky is fully dark but is best in the morning. Jupiter is below the red star Aldebaran forming a line with Mars.

Saturn is lowering in the evening sky coming closer to Venus. Saturn is visible all night long.The Moon is close to Saturn on the 8th and there is a daytime ocultation seen from Darwin.

Printable PDF maps of the Eastern sky at 10 pm AEST, Western sky at 10 pm AEST. For further details and more information on what’s up in the sky, see Southern Skywatch.

 

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/


Source: http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2024/12/thursday-december-5-to-thursday.html


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