Dec 1: The Moon is about 10.5 degrees W-SW of Saturn in the East before dawn
Dec 1: Mercury Greatest Elongation
Dec 2: The Moon is just 3.5 degrees West of Spica in the East before dawn

Dec 3: The Moon is 8 degrees SE of Venus in the East before dawn
Dec 5: New Moon
Dec 7: [...]

This month’s AASTRO Public lecture will be held at Science and Technology Museum, PMG on December 2, 2010, Thursday at 5.30pm. The presentation on “Apple, Newton and Astronomy” will be given by Vaisakhan Thampi, NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram. Students, teachers and all interested public are welcome to this program. For more details please do contact Mr. Pradeep [...]

Many people ask where can they get a starmap to observe and locate objects in the sky. Some  newspapers and magazines publish starmaps which are supposed to be used on a particular day at a particular point of time. As the celestial objects change their position in the sky as time elapses, we have [...]