Calendar of Astronomical Events

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
		1 Pheonicid meteor shower 2020	2	3 Gaia Early Data Release 3	4	5 December φ-Cassiopeid meteor shower 2020
6 Puppid-Velid meteor shower 2020	7 Asteroid 16 Psyche at opposition Moon at Last Quarter	8 Monocerotid meteor shower 2020	9	10	11 Asteroid 79 Eurynome at opposition Comet C/2020 S3 (Erasmus) passes perihelion σ-Hydrid meteor shower 2020	12 Conjunction of the Moon and Venus The Moon at perigee Close approach of the Moon and Venus Lunar occultation of Venus The Large Magellanic Cloud is well placed
13 Geminid meteor shower 2020	14 Total solar eclipse New Moon	15 The Moon at perihelion Comae Berenicid meteor shower 2020 The Running Man cluster is well placed The Orion Nebula is well placed Mercury at aphelion	16 Conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter	17 Close approach of the Moon and Jupiter Conjunction of the Moon and Saturn Close approach of the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn Comet 141P/Machholz passes perihelion	18	19 December Leonis Minorid meteor shower 2020 Mercury at superior solar conjunction
20	21 December solstice Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn Great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn Moon at First Quarter	22 Ursid meteor shower 2020	23 Conjunction of the Moon and Mars Close approach of the Moon and Mars	24 The Moon at apogee	25	26
27 Comet 398P/Boattini passes perihelion	28 The cluster NGC 2232 is well placed	29 The Moon at aphelion The Rosette Nebula is well placed Full Moon	30	31