Sky and Telescope - November 2015 - 43

Fred Schaaf

To find out what's visible in the sky from your location, go to skypub.com/almanac.

December
solstice

O R B IT S O F THE P L ANE T S
The curved arrows show each planet's movement during November. The outer planets
don't change position enough in a month to
notice at this scale.

March
equinox

Mercury
June solstice

month. It may be visible through binoculars about 20 minutes before sunrise for
just the first few days of November.

DAWN

MOON PA SSAGES

Mercury reaches superior conjunction
with the Sun on November 17th and is
too low in the dusk to see for most of the

The Moon's pairings with planets and
stars on the mornings of November 5th
through 9th of this month are not to be

Jupiter

Uranus

Jupiter
Saturn

Neptune

Pluto

Nov 14

Nov 24 -26

Around 5 am

Around 7 pm
Moon
Nov 24

Mars

Pleiades
10°

VIRGO
Venus

Moon
Nov 25

Aldebaran

CORVUS
Moon
Nov 26
Spica

Looking East-Southeast

Sept.
equinox

Sun

when you may see them as little as 0.1°
apart, depending on your location.
Venus passes well to the upper left of
Spica near month's end, shining within
5° of it from November 28th to December 2nd. Mars brightens a bit (from
magnitude 1.7 to 1.5) this month while
Venus dims (from -4.5 to -4.2). Jupiter
also brightens from magnitude -1.8 to
-2.0 during November, moving farther
southeast in Leo - much farther to the
lower left of Regulus. At mid-month,
Jupiter, with an apparent diameter of 34″,
passes less than 1° south of 4th-magnitude Sigma (σ) Leonis, Leo's hind foot.
By month's end, Jupiter rises soon after
midnight near the Leo-Virgo border.

Denebola

Earth

Venus

Mars

Looking East

missed. The Moon is a waning crescent
as it descends, one dawn after another,
down a lovely ladder of bright stars and
planets. The thick lunar crescent is well
to the upper left of Regulus on November
4th and a similar distance below it on
the 5th. The thinner Moon appears less
than 3° right or lower right of Jupiter for a
striking pairing on the American morning of November 6th. The most spectacular of these lunar encounters comes on
the morning of November 7th, when the
Moon is less than 2° from Venus, with
Mars and the fainter star Beta Virginis
above them.
On November 8th, use binoculars to
see Gamma (γ) Virginis (the tight double
star Porrima) close to the left or upper
left of the slim crescent Moon. The next
morning, look a bit lower in the eastern
sky to see a slender sliver of the waning
Moon hanging just a few degrees to the
upper left of Spica.
Back in the evening sky, the Moon
swells to full on the American afternoon
or early evening of November 25th.
Then, toward dawn on November 26th,
the Moon occults the orange giant star
Aldebaran in Taurus for observers in the
northern United States and Canada (see
page 45 for details). ✦

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