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Viewing Highlights
Night Skies:
Mars could be very low in NW skies setting about an hour after sundown.
Mercury is above Mars additionally down within the Solar’s glare.
Mercury and Mars are 1°aside on 13 November
Saturn is excessive within the NE, the rings are nearly edge on, however turning into extra apparent over the following few years till they attain most tilt once more in 2032.
Uranus, excessive close to Pleiades, binocular viewing.
Morning Skies:
Jupiter (and its 4 Galilean moons) is all the time lovely to have a look at, and could be seen for about 4 hours from about 2am until dawn
Comets:
C/2023 R2 Swann – at the moment in Aquarius, fading, about Magazine 5.6, excessive in night skies, binoculars
C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) – Magnitude 4, close to horizon, so troublesome.
Leonid Meteor bathe will probably be fairly poor this yr, regardless of the absence of the moon L
November Moon Phases
Full moon – November 5 (perigee full moon)
Perigee – November 6
Final Quarter – November 12 – Good for stargazing
Apogee New Moon – November 20 – ultimate for stargazing.
First Quarter – November 28
For astrophotographers with tripod mounted binoc or telescope
Seize Lunar X on November 27
and eventually TCoronaBorealis nonetheless hasn’t gone nova, however not seen in Sthn Hemisphere
December 2026 Highlights
Perigee Full Moon – December 5
Jupiter near moon on December 7
Geminid Meteor Bathe – December 13-14 – greatest at 3am to 5am
Solstice – December 22
Saturn near moon on December 27
January 2026 Highlights
Earth at perihelion January 4
Moon and Regulus very shut on morning of January 7
Jupiter at opposition, its greatest and brightest January 10
Occultation of Antares round 4:30am on morning of January 15
Astrophotography Problem
1. Take photographs of the moon at apogee and at perigee utilizing the identical digicam settings to measure the distinction within the moon’s obvious dimension when it’s at its closest and furthest from earth
2. Seize the Lunar X
Ian’s Tangent
Comet Atlas is being misrepresented by ‘conspiracy theorists’ on social media who declare, with no shred of proof, that Comet Atlas is an “Interstellar Spacecraft reversing its thrust”
There’s a lengthy historical past of comets inducing panic and concern in people. Unhappy.
Subsequent Episode:
Our subsequent episode, coming as quickly as I end the edit … options Dylan Grigg, a wonderful PhD from Perth in Western Australia.
Dylan has been doing superb work that impacts on the effectiveness of each radio telescope on the planet.
He has revealed the presence of unintended radio frequencies leaking from the tens of 1000’s of low earth orbit satellites above us , and these leaking frequencies are threatening to drown out the very faintest of frequencies that inform us what was occurring on the very daybreak of time.
That is vital work, and it was nice to talk with Dylan.
You’ll take pleasure in his tales!
See ya quickly
