December 2000

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Day Moonage Phenomenon (JST)
1 Moon 6.4 New Year's Day (Ganjitsu)(Sunrise:Sapporo07:06,Tokyo06:51,Osaka07:05,Fukuoka07:23)
2 Tue 7.4
3 Wed 8.4 07:01 Moon passes equator, to northern hemisphere
07:32 First quarter moon
19:06 Lambda-Tau is at minimum brightness
4 Thu 9.4 00h Asteroid 4688 1980WF is closest to Earth(0.1701AU)
04h Iota-Dra meteor shower is at peak(Jan.1-Jan.5)
17:37 Earth passses perihelion(0.9832860AU)
5 Fri 10.4 15:49 Longitude of the sun reaches 285 degrees
6 Sat 11.4 01:54 Algol is at minimum brightness
10:18 Moon passes 02o02'.8 south of Saturn
20:53 47P/Ashbrook Comet Jackson passses perihelion(Period 7.5 years)
22:45 Moon passes 02o59'.1 south of Jupiter
7 Sun 12.4 05:39 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
08:37 41P/Tuttle Giacobini Comet Kresak passses perihelion(Period 5.4 years)
17:59 Lambda-Tau is at minimum brightness
8 Moon 13.4 National Holiday in Japan (Seijin no ni)
UMaU is at maximum brightness (Mag:Period 331 days,7.1-13.0)
22:43 Algol is at minimum brightness
9 Tue 14.4 UMiU is at maximum brightness (Mag:Period 331 days,7.1-13.0)
07h Heliocentric latitude of Mercury is most at south
17:52 Moon is at north most(Decl.:+22o34'.3)
10 Wed 15.4 04:20 Occultation of Delta-Gem(Mag:3.5) (time of Tokyo)
05:21 Total lunar eclipse
05:24 Full Moon
18h Moon is nearest to the Earth (0.929,357,135km,Dia.:33'28")
11 Thu 16.4 19:32 Algol is at minimum brightness
12 Fri 17.4
13 Sat 18.4
14 Sun 19.4 02:06 Mercury passes 02o13'.3 south of Neptune
05:12 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
11:15 Neptune is closest to Mercury (02o08'.1)
15 Moon 20.4 14:22 Venus is closest to Juno (01o49'.8)
20:23 Moon passes equator, to southern hemisphere
16 Tue 21.4 00:09 74P/Smirnova Comet Chernykh passses perihelion(Period 8.5 years)
21:35 Last quarter moon
17 Wed 22.4 10:33 Longitude of the sun reaches 297 degrees
15:09 Venus is at eastern greatest elongation(47o05'.6,Mag:-4.4,Dia.:24".3)
18 Thu 23.4 05:14 Moon passes 03o38'.0 north of Mars
23:58 Mars(Mag:1.2)is closest to Alpha-Lib2(Mag:2.8)(00o51'.7)
19 Fri 24.4
20 Sat 25.4 R-Ser is at maximum brightness (Mag:Period 356 days, 5.1-14.4)
09:16 Longitude of the sun reaches 300 degrees
18:29 Moon passes 07o43'.5 south of Pluto
21 Sun 26.4 04:45 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
13:06 Occultation of Moon is closest to Asteroid ceres (00o41'.4)
22 Moon 27.4
23 Tue 28.4 00:47 Moon is at south most(Decl.:-22o34'.2)
02:28 Mercury passes 00o23'.8 south of Uranus
05:17 Uranus is closest to Mercury (00o21'.6)
24 Wed 29.4 22:07 New Moon
25 Thu 0.6 00:18 Moon passes 02o53'.9 south of Neptune
03:15 Algol is at minimum brightness
04h Moon is farthest from the Earth(1.058,406,562km,Dia.:29'24")
23:41 Jupiter is at apogee(R.A.:03h56.8m)
26 Fri 1.6 00:41 Saturn is at apogee(R.A.:03h28.9m)
03:48 Moon passes 02o22'.1 south of Uranus
11:53 Neptune is at conjunction(00o10'.2,Mag:8.0,Dia.:2".2 north of Sun)
12:12 Moon passes 02o59'.1 south of Mercury
27 Sat 2.6 19:12 Moon is closest to Asteroid Vesta (Occultation of Vesta in 00o44'.0)
28 Sun 3.6 02:21 73P/Schwassmann Comet Wachmann3 passses perihelion(Period 5.4 years)
04:19 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
15:40 Moon is closest to Asteroid Juno (01o52'.0)
22:38 Mercury is at eastern greatest elongation(18o25'.9,Mag:-0.5,Dia.:7".0)
23:21 Moon passes 06o23'.4 south of Venus
29 Moon 4.6 00:28 Algol is at minimum brightness
30 Tue 5.6 13:23 Moon passes equator, to northern hemisphere
31 Wed 6.6 21:17 Algol is at minimum brightness

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