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December skies: The final month of the year brings the Geminid meteor shower, and simultaneous views of the Winter and Summer triangles 

Bright stars and a lone bright planet are visible at dusk as December begins. The Summer Triangle of Vega, Altair and Deneb is well up in the west and getting lower as the month progresses; Saturn is halfway up in the southeast to south-southeast, with Fomalhaut, Mouth of the Southern Fish, to its lower right—and […]

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