• No NEKAAL Events for December–happy holidays!
• December 3 – Last Quarter (moon absent from evening sky)
  
• December 11 – New Moon
  
• December 18 – First Quarter
  
• December 25 – Full Moon
• January 28, 2016 – First General Meeting of the New Year, Topeka Library, 7 pm.

Evening Sky:

• Mercury – low in southwest
• Uranus – in southeast
• Neptune – in south

Midnight:

• Jupiter – in east
• Uranus – in west

Morning Sky:

• Saturn – in southeast
• Venus – in southeast
• Mars – in southeast
• Jupiter – in south

North to South, at 7-9 pm:

• Ursa Minor, the Little Bear, also the Little Dipper
• Cepheus, the King of Ethiopia
• Cassiopeia, the Queen of Ethiopia
• Lacerta, the Lizard
• Andromeda, daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia
• Pegasus, the winged horse
• Aries, the ram
• Pisces, the fishes (who had been Aphrodite and Eros)
• Cetus, the sea monster

• Venus puts on a show in December's pre-dawn hours, in the southeast sky, spending some time near bright star Spica. Look a little higher for orange-red Mars, and higher still for bright yellow-white Jupiter.
• Mercury's back in the evening sky, late in December. Look above the southwestern horizon just after sunset. Binoculars help–by the end of the month it may well be visible naked-eye on very clear evenings.
• The Geminid meteor shower will be moonless this year, peaking early morning December 14. Look at 1-3 am, in a wide region almost directly overhead.
• Comet Catalina C/2013 US10 will be visible in binoculars all month, rising through the eastern sky during December. Look in Virgo, moving into Bootes by month end.