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    Your night sky guide for 2022

    Dec 01, 2021 4 minutes
    by Jonathan Nally

    December 2021

    13/14 The Geminids meteor shower peaks, but moonlight will interfere with viewing.

    22 Today is the southern summer solstice, when the Sun is farthest south in the sky.

    January

    1 Mars will be occulted by the

    Moon this morning, but the event will be visible only from southeastern Australia (with other locations to witness a ‘near miss’). See page 46 for more details.

    4 Earth is at perihelion today, its closest point to the Sun. The distance will be 147,105,121 km.

    7 Mercury reaches greatest elongation (ie. angle from the

    Sun) east, of 19.2°

    Venus is at inferior conjunction

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