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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
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.