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| | Volume 18 -- Issue 11
November 2012
Welcome to this issue of Qué tal. Here you will find useful observing information
about the visible planets, our Moon and other
moons, the Sun, as well as various 'things' celestial.
Among
these web pages you will find monthly star maps for either the northern
or southern hemisphere that are suitable for printout. Animated
images are utilized to illustrate celestial motions such as orbital
motions of the planets, and other solar orbiting objects, or apparent
and real motions along the ecliptic and the local horizon. Regular
features include plotting the monthly positions of the visible planets
using heliocentric coordinates; following moon phases; conjunctions; the sun's
apparent motion and the Earth's real motion along the ecliptic.
For additional useful Earth and Space news, information, and graphics follow my WordPress Blog at Bob's Spaces, or as Tweets,
or as an RSS feed.
Click here to watch some of my video work posted on You Tube.
At A Glance: Mercury moves from the evening skies through inferior conjunction and into the morning skies toward the end of the month. Venus continues to dominate the
morning skies however it rises a little later each morning as it moves eastward. Watch for Venus to pass the star Spica around the 17th. The other morning planet, Saturn,
starts becoming visible toward the end of the month and on the 27th is about 0.5 degrees from Venus. Evening skies have Mars low in the southwest setting 1-2 hours after the Sun. In the east Jupiter rises after sunset and is visible through
the rest of the night.
Two eclpses happen this month - on the 13th a total solar eclipse will be visible from parts of Australia and the South Pacific, while two weeks
later there will be a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse. And the Leonid Meteor Shower peaks on the morning of the 17th without any Moon light interference.
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