What's Up: December 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA

What are some skywatching highlights in December 2023?
Clear skies will make for ideal viewing of the Geminid meteor shower, and grab your binoculars to search for asteroid Vesta.
0:00 Intro
0:14 Moon & planet highlights
0:59 Geminid meteors peak
2:05 Observing asteroid Vesta
4:08 December Moon phases
Additional information about topics covered in this episode of What's Up, along with still images from the video, and the video transcript, are available at solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatch....
- Additional Resources -
Visit NASA's "Watch the Skies" blog for updates on the Geminids: blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/
Find events & clubs: NASA's Night Sky Network:
nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/
Skywatching resources from NASA:
solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatching

[@emanuelecarioti]

Thanx 👍🪐Emanuele Carioti, journalist, from Rome, Italy 🇮🇹

[@hjordistorfa]

Thank you kindly Preston for the update.. Have your self a magnificent view and Happy Holidays

[@P.Ttrying]

Thankyou for the southern hemisphere information 🏆
I'm in a dark sky park this month in Australia, really appreciate the information
With gratitude P.T

[@Speed-Cecil]

Thanks NASA-JPL @!! 🥸

[@OktayErol]

awesome good luck, thanks

[@Rmm1722]

awesome good luck and thanks

[@edmundedmondedmontonedmunb7071]

Marvelous NASA

[@watonemillion]

wow great tips, thanks!

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

Pretty sure there will be a zipping light in the sky at remarkable speeds on the night of the 24th, but not a mention here. Let's hope NORAD is watching for it again. So far they have been tracking that special night entity for decades.

[@bbbenj]

Thank you 👍

[@ponyote]

So gorgeous to see Luna from the pacific northwest.

[@P.Ttrying]

Is psyche a core of ex planet?

[@ericfielding2540]

That is the leading theory for the Psyche asteroid, but the NASA mission will find out much more when it arrives there.

[@creatorinsider423]

14th December is my birthday 😊

[@ThatOpalGuy]

happy birthday, two weeks early.

[@TheStockwell]

December 12th is Frank Sinatra's. If you celebrate his, you'll have two days to sober up before observing your own. 🥃 🐧

[@DORIShen]

💙

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🙏🙏

[@lionelmoss]

PLEASE oh please cut out that enormously maddening background "musak" - PLEASE!!! I had to turn off way before the end as I just couldn't bear it any longer!!

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uh… what?

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