Happy HogWatch & Solstice
At 4:02 AM CST the winter solstice occurs marking the longest night of the year. If everyone has been good, the days start getting longer tomorrow. Locally, the sun will rise at 6:40AM and set at 4:51PM for a total of 10 hours and 10 minutes of daylight, but tomorrow will be a whole 1 second longer.
This also marks HogsWatch, so don’t forget to put out the turnips.
If the sky is clear, you may be able look up to the southwest [in my area] and see Saturn and Jupiter in a ‘great conjunction’, their closest apparent approach to each other since 1226. You have to start checking just after sunset, as the planets set about 2 and a half hours later. With the naked eye they will look like a large star, but unlike stars they don’t ‘twinkle’. With magnification you may be able to separate the two, and see Saturn’s rings.
