The sun’s blank right now. Not even bothering with a link.What’s up in the sky:

Fri, Dec 08, 23h Regulus 0°.7 S. of Moon, Occn.

Sun, Dec 10, 08h LAST QUARTER

Wed, Dec 13, 02h Mercury in inferior conjunction

Wed, Dec 13, 16h Mars 4° S. of Moon

Thu, Dec 14, 14h Jupiter 4° S. of Moon

Thu, Dec 14, 19h Vesta 0°.2 N. of Moon, Occn.

Times given in UT. These events, and more can be found at:

http://asa.usno.navy.mil

AAVSO Alert notice 608 is out

https://www.aavso.org/aavso-alert-notice-608

Marty also shared a link for checking when lunar occultations will occur:

http://www.lunar-occultations.co​m/iota/bstar/bstar.htm

There is a few super novas going off:

http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/snimages/

Marty covered the Large Magellanic Cloud for the object of the week:

https://space-facts.com/magellanic-clouds/

They found the furthest black hole so far:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/…/found-most-distant-black-hole

Speaking of life on other planets:

https://scitechdaily.com/rare-ni​trogen-molecule-discovery…/

Diary of Phenomena in iCalendar format

The Diary of Phenomena for the entire year is presented below in iCalendar format. To use, right-click the link below and save it to your computer. You will then be able to import it into any program that understands the iCalendar 2.0 format, such as iCal, Outlook,