Dec-Jan

Eye on the Sky All events in BST (UT + 1 hour) Dec 2010 - Jan 2011 DEC 1st Mercury is at greatest elongation, 21 degrees east (4pm); Saturn is eight degrees north of the Moon (6pm) Sat 4th Venus is at its greatest illuminated extent (11am) Mon 6th Uranus is stationary (11am) Tue 7th Mercury is 1.8 degrees south of the Moon (9am); Asteroid (16) Psyche is at opposition Fri 10th Mercury is stationary (11am) Sat 11th Neptune is five degrees south of the Moon (3pm) Tue 14th Geminds meteor shower maximum (6am); Jupiter is seven degrees south of the Moon (2am); Uranus is seven degrees south of the Moon (6am) Thu 16th Asteroid (88) Thisbe is at opposition Mon 20th Mercury is in inferior conjunction (1am) Tue 21st Total lunar eclipse as Moon is setting from the UK (8am) Wed 22nd Winter solstice (12am); Pallas is in conjunction with the Sun (5pm) Thu 23rd Ursids meteor shower maximum Sun 26th Asteroid (387) Aquitnia is at opposition Mon 27th Pluto is in conjunction with the SUn (1am) Wed 29th Saturn is eight degrees north of the Moon (3am) Thu 30th Mercury is stationary (8am) Fri 31st Venus is seven degrees north of the Moon (4pm) JAN 2011 2nd Jupiter is 0.6 degrees south of Uranus (2pm); Mercury is four degrees north of the Moon (3pm) Mon 3rd Earth is at perihelion (7pm) Tue 4th Quadrantids meteor shower peak (1am); Partial solar eclipse (Sun in eclipse at sunrise in UK, 9am); Saturn's moon Iapetus is at greatest western elongation (6pm) Sat 8th Neptune is five degrees south of the Moon (12am); Venus reaches greatest western elongation (47 degrees, 4pm) Sun 9th Mercury reaches greatest eastern elongation (23 degrees, 3pm) Mon 10th Uranus is seven degrees south of the Moon, (3pm); Jupiter is seven degrees south of the Moon (5pm) Tue 11th NEO 2000 AZ93 (magnitude +15.8) makes a close approach of 3.4 lunar distances (0.0477 AU) Sat 15th Venus is eight degrees north of Antares (10pm) Mon 17th Comet 9P/Tempel at peak brightness (mag +13) Sat 22nd Asteroid (3) Juno is stationary (11pm) Mon 24th Asteroid (7) Iris at opposition (magnitude +7.9) Tue 25th Saturn is eight degrees north of the Moon (10am) Thu 27th Saturn is stationary (8am) Sun 30th Venus is three degrees north of the Moon (4am) Mon 31st Ceres is in conjunction with the Moon (1am)