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Sky Highlights and NEKAAL Events for NOVEMBER 2016
- November 8 – First Quarter
- November 14 – Full Moon
- November 21 – Last Quarter
- November 17 – General Meeting, Mater Dei Catholic School, 7 pm. Join us!
- November 19 – Open House at Farpoint Observatory, 7:30 pm to ? Join us!
- November 29 – New Moon
PLANETS in November 2016
Evening Sky:
- Mercury – in southwest
- Venus – in southwest
- Mars – in south
- Saturn – in southwest
- Uranus – in east
- Neptune – in southeast
Midnight:
- Uranus – in southwest
- Neptune – in west
Morning Sky:
- Jupiter – in southeast
CONSTELLATIONS well placed in evening during November 2016
North to South, at 8-10 pm:
- Ursa Minor, the Little Bear, also the Little Dipper
- Cepheus, the King of Ethiopia
- Cassiopeia, the wife of King Cepheus
- Draco, the Dragon
- Lacerta, the Lizard
- Cygnus, the Swan
- Sagitta, the Arrow
- Pegasus, the Winged Horse
- Delphinus, the Dolphin
- Aquarius, the Water Bearer
- Capricornus, the Sea-Goat
SKY EXTRAS in November 2016
- Still LOTS of evening planets in November! Check out the planet list above. Uranus is easily visible in binoculars, even visible naked-eye with deep dark-vision adaptation, from very dark skies. Jupiter's back with us, but you'll have to see it in the morning now, low in the eastern twilight.
- Best evening comet should still be C/2016 A8 (LINEAR), fairly high in the southern sky and large but fading slowly, so you'll need a scope of at least 8“ aperture, an eyepiece giving low magnification…and patience.
- The Leonids meteor shower peaks November 17, but a nearly full moon once again washes out the show.
- And speaking of bright moons–the November 14 full moon is only 2.5 hours after the closest perigee (approach to earth), so this will be the largest full moon of 2016.
