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©ABRAMS PLANETARIUM Use this scale to measure angular distances between Planetarium business office: objects on diagrams below. Evenings: In mid-November, (517) 355-4676 SKY CALENDAR NOVEMBER 2020 Spaceship Earth is flying http://twitter.com/AbramsSkyNotes 0° 10° 20° directly away from the 3rd- http://abramsplanetarium.org/ An aid to enjoying the changing sky mag. star Delta Capricorni, or Deneb Algedi, tail of SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Capricornus, the Sea-goat, Sunday Nov 1, Hamal Wed 4 BetaTauri Mon Nov 2, Mon. Nov. 2: As Saturn Mon Nov 2, Nov 5-7, in south as twilight ends. Mu Uranus Nov 2-4, Pollux Castor 2 hours 22 minutes 45 minutes seen from Sun, one hour During last four months, our CETUS + 1½ hours Jupiter overtakes 1½ hours before sunrise before sunrise after fast-moving planet overtook LEO Xi2 Cet Zeta Tauri before Saturn today; Beehive Sat 7 before all five outer planets, Jupiter ARIES Sun, Jupiter, Jupiter sunset Cluster Xi1 Cet sunrise Venus sunrise and Saturn in July, Neptune Denebola TAURUS and Saturn lie Fri 6 Ve, Ma Mercury in a straight Sa-Ju 5.0° Thurs 5 in September, Mars and both brightens line. But Earth is Uranus in October, each in 5° up. Alpha Psc rapidly ahead of them, Territory Tues 3 VIRGO of Dogs T turn appearing at opposition On what date this week so as seen from EAPO Earth, Jupiter as we passed between Sun will you last Aldebaran T GEMINI PISCES still appears 5° and planet. Now in November see both SAGITTARIUS CANIS NNE NE Pleiades west of Saturn 2020, we are looking behind simultaneously? MINOR Venus Mars Spica tonight, and our planet at an impressive Hyades won’t appear to overtake Saturn lineup of all the outer planets E W ESE SSW across the evening sky. VIRGO Mercury until Dec. 21. Look Procyon Mon 2 up parallax. Let’s consider the bright Betelgeuse planets in order from west to Nov 8-10, Sunday 8 Thurs Fri Saturn Fri Nov 13, Fri Nov 13, Sat Nov 14, east. In Sagittarius, east of the Tues Nov 10, 1½ hours Nov 12, Nov 13, one hour two hours after sunset 30 minutes Teapot, Jupiter, at mag. –2.2 one hour Delta S one after Hamal Eta before sunrise to –2.0, is now the brightest before sunrise ICKLE before sunrise one VIRGO Epsilon Sat. Nov. 14 hour Moon hour sunset “star” in the evening sky. Look Venus Jupiter Gamma Zeta Venus before Venus ARIES New Moon for it in SSW to SW an hour Last Quarter, before Mars 9:07 p.m. PST Mon 9 sunrise sunrise Sa-Ju 4.0° 19 VIRGO after sunset, lower as month Sunday Nov. 8. Omicron Spica progresses. Just 5.2° to 2.3° to 8:46 a.m. EST. Venus (Sunday, Nov. 15, Mercury at Territory Uranus Mercury at 12:07 a.m. EST.) its upper left is Saturn, at mag. greatest Moon of Dogs T Xi Ari Nu PISCES LEO Regulus Spica VIRGO EAPO 29 + +0.6 about one-tenth as bright. elongation, Spica Xi1 Cet Spica T NEIllustrationsNNE for Nov.NE 2, 13, 23, NE 19° west NNE NE 31 Alpha Psc of the Sun. Mercury SAGITTARIUS 2 Old Dec. 3, 12, 21 show Jupiter VIRGO Xi Cet Visit the Sky Calendar’s creeping about 1° closer Tues 10 Mu Moon Extra Content Page: Denebola ESE SSW CETUS to Saturn each ten days. A ESE Mercury abramsplanetarium.org/msta Mercury Lambda spectacular close conjunction ESE Gamma + Mira ESE will occur on December 21. Alpha Delta Sunday, Nov. 15 Mon Nov 16, Mon Nov 16, Tues Nov 17, Thurs Nov 19, Sat. Nov. 21 These largest planets – Jupiter Saturn Saturn with cloud belts and four Soon after sunset, one hour VIRGO one hour one hour Sa-Ju 3.5° Wed Nov 18, CAPRICORNUS one hour bright satellites, and Saturn thin crescent before sunrise SAGITTARIUS after sunset after sunset one hour Alpha Cap after sunset First Quarter Moon with rings, are always pleasing after sunset Beta Cap 11:45 p.m. EST. for telescopic viewing. may be seen with Jupiter Jupiter optical aid from Venus At nightfall, note Mars drops in brilliance from OPHIUCHUS Southwest U.S. Saturn Delta Capricorni mag. –2.1 to –1.1 this month (age 20 hours Moon Moon (Deneb Algedi, as we race away. An hour from southern Venus passes Territory Territory tail of Sea-goat) Spica T of Dogs after sunset, the red planet California), and 3.9° N of Spica. EAPO Eta of Dogs 5° W of Moon, T T climbs higher in ESE as month with unaided eye EAPO EAPO Jupiter and Fomalhaut, T Young progresses, but remains near from Hawaii Moon SAGITTARIUS T Moon SAGITTARIUS T mouth of Delta and Epsilon in Pisces, a (age 23 hours). Mercury Southern Sighting marks pair of matched 4th-mag stars SW SSW SW SSW SW Fish, 17° lower 3.5° apart. Ending retrograde start of month ESE Territory Rabi’ al-Akhir. of Dogs left of Moon. on the 13th, Mars doesn’t T EAPO wander far in Nov. Using Sunday, Nov. 22 Alpha Cap Mon Nov 23, Nov. 25-27 at nightfall Nov 29-Dec 1, Sunday Nov 29, Monday Nov 30 binoculars and finder chart for T Beta Cap one hour 1¼ hours before sunrise 40 minutes before sunrise SAGITTARIUS Nov. 13, start at head of Cetus, Have you selected a site for Spica after sunset See chart on this page Zeta Tauri BetaTauri SW then star-hop using fainter observing the spectacular CAPRICORNUS stars of Aries as stepping- showing position of Mars VIRGO Mercury still Full Moon close pairing of Jupiter and Sa-Ju 3.0° visible, within 4:30 a.m. EST stones to 5.7-mag. Uranus. Saturn as it ends retrograde on Nov 29 and 30, Saturn on Monday, Dec. 21? Tues 1 17° lower left of Deepest In morning sky, Regulus, In the two hours before Nov. 13. Moon passes Venus. On what 1¼ hours Pleiades heart of Leo, lies dead ahead TAURUS penumbral sunset today, the Sun will through this same section date will you after sunset of Spaceship Earth on Nov. 21. Jupiter Venus eclipse of sky Nov. 25-27, passing Aldebaran last see Mercury This month, we’re seeing the trace out the same path 4:43 a.m. EST Alpha Lib before superior Sunday 29 swift inner planets, Mercury through the SW sky that 5° S of Mars on Nov. 25, Mon 30 conjunction with (1:43 a.m. PST). and Venus, racing ahead of Jupiter and Saturn will Territory and 5° S of Uranus on Nov. Sun? Venus will TAURUS Only slight of Dogs Pleiades Beta Lib shading us. In a favorable apparition follow on evening of 27. By these dates, Mars Hyades pass 1.4° N of T NNE NE will be noticed lasting nearly all month, Dec. 21. The planets will EAPO Mercury Alpha Lib on Aldebaran SAGITTARIUS has moved 1.1° E, and Dec. 3 and 4. BetaTauri on Moon’s N Mercury stays 13° lower left follow that path 2 hrs 21 T Uranus 0.5° W of their Nov. Sunday 29 SE Mon 30 limb. of Venus Nov. 10-18. Mercury min later than the times the SSW WNW ESE SW 13 positions. Zeta Tauri approaches within 4° E of Sun does so today. ENE Spica in a quasi-conjunction on Nov. 2. Venus passes 4° N of John S. French, Robert C. Victor $12.00 per year, starting anytime, from Sky Calendar, Abrams Planetarium, Michigan State University, the same star on Nov. 16. ISSN 0733-6314 Holiday Gift Idea: Subscription: 755 Science Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824 or online at abramsplanetarium.org/skycalendar/.
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