# What’s in the Sky in December

December

• 4th Partial Eclipse of the Sun. Just a small arc of the Sun will be covered by the Moon at 20:10AEDT.

• 4th Moon at Perigee 21:06 AEDT  Perigee distance 356,793.718km
• 4th Mars is an early morning object  Mag. 1.6  Dist. 369,833,839 km. Tilt of North pole towards Earth is 12.6106 degrees.
• 4th Saturn at mag. 0.7 setting at 00:23 AEDT on the 5th, Dist. 1,560,519,261km. Tilt of Saturn’s North pole towards Earth is 18.5672 degrees.
• 4th Jupiter is an evening object setting at 01:12AEDT on the 5th,  mag. -2.3, dist. 776,514,431km, tilt of North Pole towards Earth is 0.5685 degrees.
• 4th Mercury is an evening object very close to the Sun.
• 18th Moon at Apogee 13:16hr AEDT, Dist. 406,316.3km.
• 17th – 24th C/2021  A1 (Leonard) is due in our skies after sunset. All being well, it may even get a little brighter than currently predicted, we will soon find out.
• 22nd South Solstice  (or Summer solstice in Southern Hemisphere) 03:00AEDT.  The Sun is at it’s Southern most position, -23degrees 26″ 07.39″

Finder maps for C/2021 A1 (Leonard) below

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