Your night sky guide for 2021
December 2020
14 The Geminids, a mostly northern meteor shower, will peak this morning. With New Moon on the 15th the skies will be clear of moonlight interference.
21 Solstice. Today the hours of daylight are longest in the Southern Hemisphere, and the Sun is furthest south in the sky.
21 Jupiter and Saturn are only 0.1° apart. This’ll be a spectacular sight to the naked eye, but even more amazing through binoculars or a telescope.
January
2 The Earth is at perihelion today, it’s closest point to the Sun. The distance will be 147,093,154 km, or 0.983257 astronomical units.
12 Venus and the thin crescent Moon will appear close together.
21 Mars and the Moon will be 4° apart. Take a look through binoculars and you should be able see Uranus in between them!
Mercury reaches greatest elongation east of the Sun today, 18.6°. Visible in the west after the
