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December 2022

Tue 6

December 6, 2022 - December 7, 2022

Full Moon

Tue 6

December 6, 2022 - December 7, 2022

Mars at opposition, visible all night*

* except when occulted :)

Tue 6

December 6, 2022 - December 7, 2022

Earliest sunset

Wed 7

December 7, 2022 @ 12:00 PM - 5:30 PM CST

Except for southern and east coast US. Lasts up to an hour, depending on where you are, beginning near end of twilight on west coast, near midnight in northern New … Continue reading Mars covered up by Moon!!!! *

Sat 10

December 10, 2022 - December 11, 2022

Pollux 1.8 degrees N of Moon

Sat 10

December 10, 2022 - December 11, 2022

Apogee of Moon–Micro Waning Gibbous Moon

Tue 13

December 13, 2022 - December 14, 2022

Geminid meteor shower peak

Thu 15

December 15, 2022 - December 16, 2022

Last Quarter Moon

Fri 16

December 16, 2022 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Mercury and Venus 5.9 degrees apart

see in binoculars about 30 minutes after Sunset

Sat 17

December 17, 2022 - December 18, 2022

Sun enters Sagittarius

Sun 18

December 18, 2022 @ 2:00 AM - 11:00 AM CST

Solstice

3:48 PM US Central Time

Tue 20

December 20, 2022 - December 21, 2022

Mercury Greatest Elongation

Magnitude -0.6

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The Original Classroom Astronomer Magazine

View and purchase all 23 PDF issues of the original magazine! Click here to get to Tables of Contents of TCA Issues starting with Volume 1 Issue 1, or Click here for an index to all past articles, sorted by content area and by educational level.

Click on the image above for links to TCA webpages and free articles:

-The TCA Astronomy Subject Index,
-Things to Do With Total Lunar Eclipses such as measuring the Moon’s distance,
-The Real Signs of the Zodiac
-Sundials,
-All Things Mercury,
-High School Astronomy in the USA,

and FREE Articles on a variety of topics from the various issues of the original TCA!

THE CLASSROOM ASTRONOMER NEWSLETTER

The Newsletter on Astronomy Education for K-12, College, and even Home Schooling science teachers.

The Classroom Astronomer Newsletter (TCA, or TCAN) is a twice-monthly email newsletter, or as we prefer to call it, an Inbox Magazine, covers many of the same topics as the 2009-2015 magazine, and debuted in May 2021. The newsletter contains:

Articles on useful educational software.
Regular columns like Astronomical Teachniques–tips and methods to teach specific topics, Connections to the Sky–external sources of resources or programs to help you with your instruction–and The RAP Sheet–items found in scholarly research that you can use now.
Occasional short term columns that have been, or are running, that include a look at the astronomy standards in the NGSS–Next Generation Science Standards–and Astronomy Remotely, Internet observatories you can use.
And sometimes other things!

Designed for use for all levels of astronomy educators, including the pandemically virtual home teachers and home schoolers, and anyone who wants more than just a “Wow, what’s up in the sky?” news briefing. Many items come from the most recent astronomy and astronomy education world conferences! Written by longtime astronomer, journalist and educator Dr. Larry Krumenaker.

Subscribe at https://ClassroomAstronomer.Substack.Com by the month or by the year. Special discount rates for Developing Nation teachers, home school teachers, and science education students (and occasionally others, or all for special events! The free TCA Lite (which began with Issue 9) gives you about half of each Issue.

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-Past issues of the original TCA Magazine,
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-The Hermograph Wearable Sundial T-shirt,
-and astronomy books to come!

Plus, a variety of historical tourism books!

http://www.hermograph.com/store