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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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