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          | The
Shallow Sky in December
 Evening Planets 
  
    Mars
    is low in the western sky in twilight,
    in Capricornus at magnitude 1.0. It will subtend 5".
    Neptune
    is fairly high in the sky as twilight ends in Aquarius at magnitude 7.9.
    Uranus
    is high in the sky after twilight ends in Pisces at magnitude 5.8.
    Jupiter
    is rising fairly high in the east at midnight, in Leo,
    at magnitude -2.4. |  |