Astronomy- The Astrophiz podcast with Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave
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Moon Phases for November:
1 November – New Moon – very best for stargazing
9 November – 1st Quarter Moon
14 November – Moon at perigee (closest)
16 November – Full Moon
23 November – Final Quarter Moon, additionally very best for stargazing
26 November – Moon at apogee (furthest)
A lot of the planetary motion is within the night skies and late night skies.
Night Skies:
Venus may be very excessive in early night skies within the west
Mercury is at its greatest within the night twilight this month, close to skinny crescent moon on 3 November.
Saturn remains to be fairly good within the west this month.
Jupiter is seen rising within the east within the late night skies
Mars enters night skies later within the month, however nonetheless at its greatest within the mornings.
In mid-month, Mercury, Venus and Saturn will probably be seen shut to one another an hour after sundown.
Uranus is in opposition at Magazine 5.7 so is definitely an unaided eye object below darkish sky circumstances. Simple to search out about 2 levels above the Pleiades
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is climbing larger and fading, however for the beginning of the month remains to be a pleasant binocular object in night western skies earlier than fading from most binoculars.
The Leonid meteor bathe is a waste of time this 12 months resulting from a blazing moon.
Morning Skies
Mars is larger within the twilight within the East
Jupiter is greatest within the mornings proper now, because it slowly strikes again to Aldabaran.
Astrophotography Problem
Venus is within the coronary heart of the galaxy, however you’ll want darkish skies to have the lengthy exposures wanted to convey out the Milky Manner’s coronary heart.
Comet C/2024 S1 is a potential (however not possible) ‘Lovejoy-type object’ to maintain a watch out for.
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