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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.

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December 1970

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♀︎Venus stations direct00:04

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3

☿︎Mercury enters Capricorn10:14

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6

♂︎Mars enters Scorpio16:33

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10
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12

○︎Full Moon 20°26' Gemini21:03

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14

Geminids peak

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17
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19

☿︎Mercury stations retrograde05:55

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22

☉︎Sun enters Capricorn06:35

☉︎December solstice06:35

Ursids peak

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28

●︎New Moon 6°17' Capricorn10:43

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♂︎☍︎Mars opposition Saturn20:06

None this month.

  • ○︎Full Moon 20°26' Gemini12 Dec · 21:03
  • ●︎New Moon 6°17' Capricorn28 Dec · 10:43

  • ☿︎Mercury enters Capricorn03 Dec · 10:14
  • ♂︎Mars enters Scorpio06 Dec · 16:33
  • ☉︎Sun enters Capricorn22 Dec · 06:35

  • ♀︎Venus stations directstandstill at 9°46' Scorpio · closes the 41-day retrograde01 Dec · 00:04
  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 14°05' Capricorn · opens a 20-day retrograde19 Dec · 05:55

Equinoxes and solstices

  • ☉︎December solsticethe Sun enters Capricorn22 Dec · 06:35

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 SaturnMars 15°57' Scorpio · Saturn 15°57' Taurus Rx31 Dec · 20:06

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.