Christmas Eve will be a moonlit night, the moon rising at 6.6 p.m.; passing on the meridian a short: time after midnight, and setting at 7.16, next morning. At the midnight hour, Orion is on the meridian, with.the Great and Little Dogs lower down to the South-East, and the Twins, Castor and Pollux, higher up in the Eastern quadrant. Taurus, with the bright star Aldebara, and the Pleiades are a litle to the West.
In the early Christmas morning, the 3 planets Jupiter, Mars and Saturn will adorn the Eastern skies and bow their homage a Merry Christmas in their own way, to the King of Kings.
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