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Astrophiz 161: Dr Ian Musgrave’s December SkyGuide Enjoy your regular monthly treat of viewing tips for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist. Ian gives us all the viewing highlights and what planets to look out for in our morning and evening skies. This special month also brings you all 5 bright planets viewable in the dusk twilight and later in the evening, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are bright beacons for the naked eye and easily examined in detail with binoculars and telescopes. Mars is right in opposition now, being closest in its orbit to earth, nice and bright orange to the naked eye and a polar ice cap visible for those with telescopes. Get out there on 8 December for the best opposition view of Mars till 2033. In Ian’s Tangent …. Mars Quakes, meteor impacts, ejecta and subsequent glass tektites landing on earth, and how the blast from mighty rockets like the SLS and Saturn V can fuse sand into glass. It’s all linked by science.