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Celestial Calendar

About Celestial Calendar

Eclipses, New and Full Moons, ingresses, stations, the equinoxes and solstices, meteor showers and exact outer-planet aspects, month by month, from the same engine as the sky.

‹ November 1956

December 1956

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♇︎Pluto stations retrograde07:15

☉︎Partial solar eclipse 10° Sagittarius08:00

●︎New Moon 10°08' Sagittarius08:13

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♂︎☍︎Mars opposition Jupiter12:34

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♂︎Mars enters Aries11:23

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☿︎Mercury enters Capricorn07:10

♄︎△︎Saturn trine Uranus19:56

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♃︎Jupiter enters Libra02:16

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Geminids peak

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○︎Full Moon 25°51' Gemini19:06

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♂︎△︎Mars trine Uranus20:42

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♀︎Venus enters Sagittarius19:06

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☉︎Sun enters Capricorn20:59

☉︎December solstice20:59

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♂︎△︎Mars trine Saturn05:08

Ursids peak

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  • ☉︎Partial solar eclipse 10° SagittariusSun 10°08' Sagittarius · Moon 10°02' Sagittarius · north node · partial everywhere it is seen02 Dec · 08:00

  • ●︎New Moon 10°08' Sagittarius02 Dec · 08:13
  • ○︎Full Moon 25°51' Gemini17 Dec · 19:06

  • ♂︎Mars enters Aries06 Dec · 11:23
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Capricorn08 Dec · 07:10
  • ♃︎Jupiter enters Libra13 Dec · 02:16
  • ♀︎Venus enters Sagittarius19 Dec · 19:06
  • ☉︎Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 20:59

  • ♇︎Pluto stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 0°27' Virgo · opens a 159-day retrograde02 Dec · 07:15

Equinoxes and solstices

  • ☉︎December solsticethe Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 20:59

Meteor showers

  • ·Geminids peakup to 150 an hour under a dark sky · asteroid 3200 Phaethon14 Dec
  • ·Ursids peakup to 10 an hour under a dark sky · comet 8P/Tuttle22 Dec

  • ♂︎☍︎Mars opposition JupiterMars 29°02' Pisces · Jupiter 29°02' Virgo04 Dec · 12:34
  • ♄︎△︎Saturn trine UranusSaturn 6°40' Sagittarius · Uranus 6°40' Leo Rx08 Dec · 19:56
  • ♂︎△︎Mars trine UranusMars 6°24' Aries · Uranus 6°24' Leo Rx18 Dec · 20:42
  • ♂︎△︎Mars trine SaturnMars 8°13' Aries · Saturn 8°13' Sagittarius22 Dec · 05:08

All times Universal Time (UT), solved to the minute. Eclipse rows give the kind seen at the best-placed point on Earth and the instant of greatest eclipse; where you stand decides what you see, and a partial or penumbral eclipse is listed on the same terms as a total one. An ingress is the crossing itself; a station is the standstill, as on the retrograde calendar; the equinoxes and solstices are the Sun's cardinal ingresses; meteor peaks are dates from the shower catalogue, not instants; an outer-planet aspect is listed at each exact pass, so a retrograde series is several rows. The Moon's signs and void-of-course windows are on the moon calendar, and every planet's daily position on the ephemeris table. Nothing here is read against a chart: for your own dates see the timeline.