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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 +
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-===== CONSTELLATIONS well placed in evening during November 2015 ===== +
-North to South, at 8-10 pm: +
-  * **Ursa Minor**, the Little Bear, also the Little Dipper +
-  * **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 +
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-===== 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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 +[[http://​www.astronomy.com/​observing/​sky-this-week|Astronomy Magazine'​s Sky This Week]] ​