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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 1973

December 1973

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♀︎Venus enters Aquarius21:37

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☿︎Mercury enters Sagittarius21:29

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♂︎☍︎Mars opposition Uranus17:26

10

○︎Full Moon 17°51' Gemini01:35

☽︎Partial lunar eclipse 17° Gemini01:44

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Geminids peak

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☉︎Sun enters Capricorn00:07

☉︎December solstice00:08

Ursids peak

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♂︎Mars enters Taurus08:09

☉︎Annular solar eclipse 2° Capricorn15:01

●︎New Moon 2°40' Capricorn15:07

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♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Saturn06:49

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☿︎Mercury enters Capricorn15:14

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  • ☽︎Partial lunar eclipse 17° GeminiMoon 17°57' Gemini opposite the Sun 17°51' Sagittarius · south node · 5% of the Moon's disc in the umbra10 Dec · 01:44
  • ☉︎Annular solar eclipse 2° CapricornSun 2°40' Capricorn · Moon 2°37' Capricorn · north node · 84% of the Sun's disc covered along the track24 Dec · 15:01

  • ○︎Full Moon 17°51' Gemini10 Dec · 01:35
  • ●︎New Moon 2°40' Capricorn24 Dec · 15:07

  • ♀︎Venus enters Aquarius07 Dec · 21:37
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Sagittarius08 Dec · 21:29
  • ☉︎Sun enters Capricorn22 Dec · 00:07
  • ♂︎Mars enters Taurus24 Dec · 08:09
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Capricorn28 Dec · 15:14

None this month.

Equinoxes and solstices

  • ☉︎December solsticethe Sun enters Capricorn22 Dec · 00:08

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 UranusMars 26°30' Aries · Uranus 26°30' Libra09 Dec · 17:26
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile SaturnMars 0°55' Taurus · Saturn 0°55' Cancer Rx27 Dec · 06:49

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.