{"id":579,"date":"2020-10-28T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/?p=579"},"modified":"2020-10-25T21:23:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T21:23:50","slug":"november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/november-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the sun sets\nat the start of November, Bo\u00f6tes and the orange star Arcturus are\nsetting along with Ophiuchus and Serpens. Jupiter and Saturn are in\nthe south as they draw closer together for their great conjunction in\nDecember. Mars is rising alongside Pisces. Orion and Gemini are late\nevening risers. Venus and Mercury are morning objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As\nthe month goes on, Jupiter and Saturn are moving eastward with\nJupiter catching up to Saturn. The moon will pass by them on the 18th<\/sup>\nand 19th<\/sup>.\nMars is first moving slowly westward and then turns around about\nmid-month. The moon passes it on the 25th<\/sup>.\nVenus and Mercury are the most mobile planets. They start in opposite\nends of Virgo. See Venus close to Porrima on the 5th<\/sup>.\nOn the 10th<\/sup>,\nthe two planets make a stretched triangle with the bright star Spica.\nThat’s the day Mercury is at greatest elongation at 19.1\u00b0 west of\nthe sun before it turns around and goes sunward again. A thin\ncrescent moon passes through the neighborhood on the 12th<\/sup>\nand 13th<\/sup>.\nMercury moves sunward so fast, it’s hard to see during the last week\nof the month when it’s in Libra. Venus is going after it in hot\npursuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\nLeonid meteor shower’s forecast peak is on the 17th<\/sup>.\nBest viewing is in the morning when Leo is up. This year’s shower\nisn’t expected to be spectacular, but observers in the Americas may\nget the best of the peak at up to 15 meteors per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\nwaning gibbous moon is at northern lunistice 24.8\u00b0 north of the\nequator on the 5th<\/sup>.\nIt’s at last quarter on the 8th<\/sup>.\nIt goes south of the equator on the 12th<\/sup>,\nis new on the 15th<\/sup>,\nreaches 24.9\u00b0 south of the equator on the 18th<\/sup>,\nfirst quarter on the 22nd<\/sup>,\nand goes north of the equator again on the 25th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\nfull moon on November 30th<\/sup>\ncomes with a penumbral eclipse. It’ll be visible\u2014as penumbral\neclipses go\u2014from northeast Asia, most of the Pacific, and North\nAmerica. It’ll be a moonrise event for Australia and most of the rest\nof Asia. And it’s a moonset event for South America and the northern\nAtlantic. For four hours, 21 minutes starting at 7:32 Universal Time,\nthe moon will pass through the outer part of Earth’s shadow. It’ll be\ndeepest in at 9:44 and emerge from the shadow at 11:53. Penumbral\neclipses don’t produce the deep darkening of any part of the moon\nlike we have in partial and total eclipses. If you could be on the\nmoon when it happens, you’d see the earth blocking part of the sun.\nSince a lot of sunlight is still reaching the moon, earth based\nviewers who don’t know an eclipse is happening might not notice\nanything. If you look carefully, you might see that one side of the\nmoon looks a little less brightly lit than the other. It may even\nlook a little more tan or yellow because of sunlight going through\nEarth’s atmosphere first. These effects can be very subtle and will\nbe most noticeable around the middle of the eclipse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nmoon will be closest to Earth on the 14th<\/sup>\nat 357,800 km center-to-center and farthest on the 27th<\/sup>\nat 405,900 km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercury\nis at perihelion on the 2nd<\/sup>\nat 0.307 astronomical units (earth-sun distances) from the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some notable\nconjunctions this month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1st<\/sup>\nMercury and Spica 4.0\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3rd<\/sup>\nMoon and Aldebaran 4.5\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6th<\/sup>\nMoon and Pollux 3.8\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9th<\/sup>\nMoon and Regulus 4.4\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12th<\/sup>\nJupiter and Pluto 0.7\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12th<\/sup>\nVenus and moon 1.6\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13th<\/sup>\nMercury and moon 1.6\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16th<\/sup>\nVenus and Spica 3.8\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19th<\/sup>\nJupiter and moon 2.5\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19th<\/sup>\nSaturn and moon 2.8\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

23rd<\/sup>\nNeptune and moon 4.1\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25th<\/sup>\nMars and moon 4.5\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

27th<\/sup>\nUranus and moon 3.1\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

30th<\/sup>\nMoon and Aldebaran 4.5\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A comet to watch\nif you have a telescope is C\/2020 M3 Atlas. This object discovered in\nJuly has brightened up a lot more than expected. By mid October, it\nwas around magnitude 9, visible in small to mid-size telescopes in\ndark skies. After its perihelion on October 26, it will travel\nnorthward along Orion’s western side in November. How bright a comet\nwill be is notoriously hard to predict. It may get much brighter or\nit may go dimmer. All I can tell you as I record this is to try your\nluck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the sun sets at the start of November, Bo\u00f6tes and the orange star Arcturus are setting along with Ophiuchus and Serpens. Jupiter and Saturn are in the south as they draw closer together for their great conjunction in December. Mars is rising alongside Pisces. Orion and Gemini are late evening risers. Venus and Mercury […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-59"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}