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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: | + | For sky highlights see: |
| - | * **Uranus** -- in southwest | + | |
| - | * **Neptune** -- in west | + | |
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| - | Morning Sky: | + | |
| - | * **Jupiter** -- in southeast | + | |
| + | [[http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/|Sky and Telescope's Sky at a glance]] \\ | ||
| + | OR \\ | ||
| + | [[http://www.astronomy.com/observing/sky-this-week|Astronomy Magazine's Sky This Week]] | ||
| - | ===== 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 | ||
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| - | ===== 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. | ||
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