{"id":845,"date":"2022-10-30T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/?p=845"},"modified":"2022-10-30T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T16:44:07","slug":"november-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/november-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our November\nevenings start with Saturn close to the meridian and Jupiter risen\nalready well above the horizon at sunset. Uranus is rising when\ndarkness begins. Mars rises mid-evening. It’s a little brighter and\nleft of Aldebaran rising at about the same time. Aldebaran leads one\nleg of a V-shaped asterism called the Hyades, in case you need help\nfiguring out which is which. Orion and Gemini rise late evening. Look\nfor Leo in the mid-morning darkness. Arcturus is up before dawn.\nMercury and Venus aren’t visible yet. They’re too close to the sun.\nMercury is in superior conjunction on the 8th<\/sup>. Venus went\nthrough superior conjunction last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you do see\nthe two innermost planets this month, it will be later in the month.\nBest viewing is from around 5 degrees south latitude. Even from\nthere, the planets will be low in the evening sunset light. It’ll\ntake until December for them to emerge sufficiently from solar\nconjunction for easier viewing. Mercury’s in the lead at the end of\nNovember, but Venus will catch up to it for a close pairing after\nChristmas. But certainly, look at them this month if you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturn’s\nmoving eastward in the eastern part of Capricornus The moon is just\npast first quarter on the 1st<\/sup>\nwhen it’s near the ringed planet. The moon’s a waxing crescent when\nit passes by Saturn again from the 28th<\/sup>\nto 29th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\nwaxing gibbous moon is close to Jupiter on the 4th<\/sup>.\nJupiter is retrograde the first half of the month. It’s stationary\nfrom about the 16th<\/sup>\nto about the 2nd<\/sup>\nof December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nmoon is full on the 8th<\/sup>.\nIt’ll pass through Earth’s shadow for a total lunar eclipse lasting\nan hour and 25 minutes. The penumbral phase begins at 08:02 Universal\nTime. Partial phase starts at 09:09. Totality is from 10:16 to 11:41.\nPartial phase ends at 12:49. And the penumbral phase ends at 13:56.\nFor most of the Americas, this eclipse happens during moonset. The\nentire event is visible from western North America, most of the\nPacific, and northeast Asia. A sliver of the eastern Australian coast\nwill see all of it too, but it’s a moonrise event for most of the\ncontinent. Most of Asia and the northern and eastern parts of Europe\nalso see the eclipse during moonrise. It’s out of view for western\nEurope and all of Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uranus\nis a little east of the moon during the eclipse. The planet’s at\nopposition on the 9th<\/sup>,\napproximately 18.7 astronomical units or 2,795 million km from us.\nThe moon’s proximity doesn’t help us see it at opposition. It’s\npossible, but tricky. You’ll need magnification. But look for Uranus\nduring the eclipse. The moon’s never completely dark during a total\neclipse, but it’ll be dark enough to make a big difference. The moon\nwill be close to the Pleiades during the eclipse and on the 9th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See this eclipse\nif you can. The next one won’t happen until March 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mars\nstarts the month almost stationary in the easternmost region of\nTaurus. It’s soon clearly retrograde on a course that will eventually\ntake it back by the Hyades. A past full moon goes by the red planet\non the 10th<\/sup>\nand 11th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moon\nphases this month: first quarter on the 1st<\/sup>\nat 06:38 UT, full on the 8th<\/sup>\nat 11:03, last quarter on the 16th<\/sup>\nat 13:28, new on the 23rd<\/sup>\nat 22:58, last quarter on the 30th<\/sup>\nat 14:37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nmoon crosses the equator going north on the 5th<\/sup>,\nis at northern lunistice at 27.5 degrees on the 12th<\/sup>,\ngoes south of the equator on the 20th<\/sup>,\nand reaches southern lunistice at 27.5 degrees on the 26th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lunar\napogee is on the 14th<\/sup>\nat 404,800 km distance. Perigee is on the 26th<\/sup>\nat 362,800 km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercury\nwill be at aphelion on the 19th<\/sup>\nat 0.467 a.u. or 69.9 million km from the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nLeonid meteor shower can be seen nearly all month. Its peak is\nNovember 17th<\/sup>\nand 18th<\/sup>.\nThe meteors you see from such a shower can be caused by comet dust\nleft behind hundreds of years ago. Leonids come from Comet\n55P\/Tempel-Tuttle. The American Meteor Society says Earth could pass\nthrough a trail left in1600 at 7 hours UT on the 18th<\/sup>,\na trail left in 1733 at about 6 hours Universal Time on the 19th<\/sup>,\nand a trail from 1800 at 15 hours UT on the 21st<\/sup>.\nThe 1733 trail may spawn the most meteors. As the moon is between\nlast quarter and new, its light will interfere with the viewing a\nlittle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our November evenings start with Saturn close to the meridian and Jupiter risen already well above the horizon at sunset. Uranus is rising when darkness begins. Mars rises mid-evening. It’s a little brighter and left of Aldebaran rising at about the same time. Aldebaran leads one leg of a V-shaped asterism called the Hyades, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-61"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}