Looking east the morning of December 3rd an hour before dawn.
(Created by the Author in Starry Night).
By now, you�ve no doubt been thrilled by last week�s dramatic passage of Venus and Saturn in the dawn sky. Well, as the old Late-night TV ad clich� says, �But wait, there�s more��
Fresh off of inferior conjunct and a near transit of the Sun that missed the solar limb by less than 8� minutes on November 17th, the planet Mercury joins the pair for a stunning gathering. [Read more...]














Astro-Event: Of Meteor Showers & Near Earth Asteroids.
Toutatis near Aldebaran on December 19th.
It�s a shooting gallery out there. As the scarred surface of our Moon attests, the inner solar system is routinely criss-crossed by comets and asteroids that would do our precious niche of the universe harm.
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