Monthly sky briefing
December 2022
In December 2022, Jupiter was the brightest thing in the evening sky. The full moon fell on 8 Dec. The Geminids peaked around 14 Dec. 2 Starlink trains went up — a well-known source of "string of lights" reports in the days after.
Bright planets
- Jupiterevening sky · mag -2.5
- Marsevening sky · mag -1.7
- Mercuryevening sky · mag -0.6
- Saturnevening sky · mag +0.7
Moon
- Full moon8 Dec
- New moon23 Dec
Meteor showers
- Geminidspeak 14 Dec
Rocket launches
2 launches · 2 Starlink
- Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-3717 Dec
- Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-128 Dec
Reports this monthopen 2022 on the map ↗
529most reported: orb (101), light (70), triangle (58)
Everything above is computed from public data — planet and moon positions, the launch log and the report catalogue. It doesn’t explain any single report; it just shows how much ordinary sky was overhead. What can’t be pinned to a planet, a launch or the moon is the part worth a closer look.