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| - | ====== Sky Highlights and NEKAAL Events for NOVEMBER 2015 ====== | ||
| - | * November 3 -- Last Quarter (moon absent from evening sky)\\ | ||
| - | * November 7 -- OPEN HOUSE at Farpoint Observatory, JOIN US beginning 7:30 pm\\ | ||
| - | * November 11 -- __**New Moon**__\\ | ||
| - | * November 19 -- First Quarter\\ | ||
| - | * November 19 -- NEKAAL General Meeting, Topeka Library, JOIN US at 7:00 pm\\ | ||
| - | * November 25 -- Full Moon | ||
| - | ===== PLANETS in November 2015 ===== | ||
| - | Evening Sky: | ||
| - | * **Saturn** -- very low in southwest, only early in November | ||
| - | * **Uranus** -- in east | ||
| - | * **Neptune** -- in southeast | ||
| - | Midnight: | + | For sky highlights see: |
| - | * **Uranus** -- in southwest | + | |
| - | * **Neptune** -- in west | + | |
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| - | Morning Sky: | + | |
| - | * **Mercury** -- in east | + | |
| - | * **Venus** -- in southeast | + | |
| - | * **Mars** -- in southeast | + | |
| - | * **Jupiter** -- in southeast | + | |
| - | ===== CONSTELLATIONS well placed in evening during November 2015 ===== | + | [[http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/|Sky and Telescope's Sky at a glance]] \\ |
| - | North to South, at 8-10 pm: | + | OR \\ |
| - | * **Ursa Minor**, the Little Bear, also the Little Dipper | + | [[http://www.astronomy.com/observing/sky-this-week|Astronomy Magazine's Sky This Week]] |
| - | * **Cepheus**, the King of Ethiopia | + | |
| - | * **Cassiopeia**, the Queen of Ethiopia | + | |
| - | * **Lacerta**, the Lizard | + | |
| - | * **Andromeda**, daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia | + | |
| - | * **Pegasus**, the winged horse | + | |
| - | * **Pisces**, the fishes (who had been Aphrodite and Eros) | + | |
| - | * **Cetus**, the sea monster | + | |
| - | * **Aquarius**, the water carrier, or god of rain | + | |
| - | ===== SKY EXTRAS in November 2015 ===== | ||
| - | * The Summer Triangle now shines in the west, early in November's evenings. | ||
| - | * No bright planets in this month's evenings. But all the good planets are in the morning twilight--you can't miss extremely brilliant **Venus**! | ||
| - | * No even comets visible in binoculars from Kansas this month, but comet **Catalina C/2013 US10** may be visible in binoculars late in November, very low in the eastern sky just at morning twilight--might even be visible naked eye. Look in Hydra, moving into Virgo by month end. | ||
| - | * Best small telescope comet bet this month is **PANSTARRS (C/2013 X1)**, visible in Perseus at magnitude 11 and brightening slowly, moving into Andromeda by month's end. Look right overhead about 10-11 pm, or high in the east before that. | ||
| - | * The **Leonids meteor shower** peaks on the night of November. The moon sets in the late evening, which is ideal as the meteor shower's radiant will be high enough in the sky after about 4 am, and the maximum rate will be 4-6 am. Look in the southeastern sky. | ||
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