Sky Guide December 2017

What to look out, and up, for in December.


Ralph, Paul & Jen pick their highlights for this month’s
skies; starting with the solar system objects on offer to
observers and imagers:


The Geminid meteor showers peaking on 13/14th December

Uranus sitting in the constellation Pisces

Mars & Jupiter lunar conjunctions



Next up, we take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for
this time of year:


Ralph – A binary star, a planetary nebula and 4 open clusters
in Gemini

Jen - The Pleiades open cluster in Taurus

Paul – The Crab Nebula supernova remnant also in Taurus



And we finish this sky guide with December’s moon phases.