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Hello, and HAPPY HOLIDAYS, and GOODBYE 2021! Canton (canton@gmail.com) will be researching and adding 2022 calendar events (meteor showers, etc.) during the last week of this month. Feel free to email him any suggestions. Also, if you do your holiday shopping on Amazon, you can support the work of this[...]

Have you been putting off your trip to Antarctica? This might be the right moment. You’ll get close to 24 hours of daylight, with wildlife at its busiest. And a total solar eclipse. Everywhere else misses out. Parts of southern Africa, including locations in South Africa and Namibia, will benefit[...]

 

 

The waxing gibbous moon will block out most of the fainter meteors this year. But the Geminids are so numerous and bright that this could still be a good show. Best viewing will be from a dark location after midnight. The Geminids is the king of the meteor showers, and[...]

 

The nearly full moon will be a problem this year, blocking all but the brightest meteors. Best viewing will be just after midnight from a dark location far away from city lights. The Ursids is a minor meteor shower producing about 5-10 meteors per hour. It is produced by dust[...]

This marks the beginning of winter (in the northern hemisphere) and the beginning of summer (in the southern hemisphere.) The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, respectively, in the sense that the length of time elapsed between sunrise and sunset on this day is a minimum for[...]