Calendar of Astronomical Events

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1 New Moon	2 Pheonicid meteor shower 2024 The Moon at perihelion	3	4	5 Conjunction of the Moon and Venus Close approach of the Moon and Venus December φ-Cassiopeid meteor shower 2024	6 Conjunction of Ceres and Pluto Mercury at inferior solar conjunction Jupiter at perigee Mercury at perihelion Puppid-Velid meteor shower 2024	7 Mars enters retrograde motion
8 Conjunction of Venus and Pluto Jupiter at opposition Neptune ends retrograde motion Close approach of the Moon and Saturn Lunar occultation of Saturn Conjunction of the Moon and Saturn Conjunction of Venus and Ceres Moon at First Quarter Monocerotid meteor shower 2024	9 Lunar occultation of Neptune	10	11 σ-Hydrid meteor shower 2024	12 The Moon at perigee The Large Magellanic Cloud is well placed	13	14 Close approach of the Moon and M45 Geminid meteor shower 2024 The Running Man cluster is well placed The Orion Nebula is well placed
15 The Moon at aphelion Close approach of the Moon and Jupiter Conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter Asteroid 15 Eunomia at opposition Lunar occultation of Beta Tauri Full Moon Comae Berenicid meteor shower 2024	16	17	18 Conjunction of the Moon and Mars Close approach of the Moon and Mars Lunar occultation of Mars	19 December Leonis Minorid meteor shower 2024	20 Mercury at dichotomy	21 December solstice
22 Ursid meteor shower 2024	23 Moon at Last Quarter	24 The Moon at apogee	25 Lunar occultation of Spica Mercury at greatest elongation west	26	27	28 Lunar occultation of Antares The cluster NGC 2232 is well placed
29 Conjunction of the Moon and Mercury The Rosette Nebula is well placed	30 Mercury at highest altitude in morning sky	31 The Moon at perihelion New Moon