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Monday, November 07, 2022

 

Thursday November 10 to Thursday November 17

The Last Quarter Moon is Wednesday, November 16.  Jupiter is easy to see as brightest object in the evening sky aside from the Moon. Mars is now rising just before midnight, but is still best to see in the morning. Mars forms a triangle with the bright stars Elnath and Zeta Taurii, the tips of the horns of the Bull. On the 11th Mars, the waning Moon and Elnath form a triangle.

The Last Quarter Moon is Wednesday, November 16.

Evening sky on Friday, November 11 as seen from Adelaide at 23:30 ACDST, (click to embiggen). Mars forms a triangle the bright stars Elnath and Zeta Taurii and the waning moon joins them. This attractive conjunction will be visible into the morning on the 12th as well,


Mars is rising around 21:30 am non-daylight saving time (22:30 daylight saving time) but is best seen in the morning. The insets are the binocular and telescopic views respectively.


   

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time. 

 

Evening sky on Saturday, November 12 as seen from Adelaide at 21:33 ACDST, 90 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen).

Saturn forms a line with iota, delta and gamma Capricornii with Jupiter to the north.



The insets are the telescopic views of Saturn and Jupiter at the same magnification at this time.

 Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time (90 minutes after sunset). 


 
Whole sky on Saturday, November 12 as seen from Adelaide at 21:33 ACDST, 90 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen). The Milky Way stretches across the western hoizon. Saturn and Jupiter are both visible.

Scorpius is sinking in the western horizon with the teapot of Sagittarius above. The low altitude and brightening Moon make the clusters of Sagittarius hard to make out.

Between the bright star Canopus and the Southern Cross are another wealth of binocular objects to discover.

 

  

 Elsewhere in Australia will see a similar view at the equivalent time (90 minutes after sunset). 

 

Mercury is lost in the twilight.

Venus is lost in the twilight.

Mars forms a triangle the bright stars Elnath and Zeta Taurii, the tips of the horns of the Bull. On the 11th Mars, the waning Moon and Elnath form a triangle.

Jupiter climbs higher in the late evening sky was at opposition, when it was biggest and brightest as seen from Earth, on the 27th of September. Jupiter is visible all night.

Saturn forms a line with iota, delta and gamma Capricornii. Saturn was at opposition, when it was biggest and brightest as seen from Earth, on the 15th of August.

 
Printable PDF maps of the Eastern sky at 10 pm AEST, Western sky at 10 pm AEST. For further details and more information on what's up in the sky, see Southern Skywatch.


 

Star Map via Virtual sky. Use your mouse to scroll around and press 8 when your pointer is in the map to set to the current time.

Cloud cover predictions can be found at SkippySky.

Here is the near-real time satellite view of the clouds (day and night) http://satview.bom.gov.au/

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