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The inner solar system this week.


Top: The sky as seen from mid-northern latitudes; Bottom: The sky as seen from mid-southern latitudes. Both are at 9:30 p.m., facing south. The curved line represents the plane of our solar system, called the ecliptic.
SpaceWatch -- Catch the Moon In Taurus This Weekend
By Jeff Kanipe

posted: 30 June 2005
08:13 am

Saturday / Sunday, November 11 /12

Saturday-Sunday, November 11-12

The full Moon -- known as the "Frosty" or "Beaver" Moon -- is this month again encroaching on Taurus the Bull. Tonight, the Frosty Moon stands about 11 degrees before the bull's nose, as if daring it to charge. Just 3 degrees to the east is Saturn.

LOOKING AHEAD: NOVEMBER
  • 14: The moon is at perigee 227,450 miles (366,047 km)
  • 15: Mercury reaches greatest elongation its greatest apparent angular distance west of the sun (19 degrees)
  • 17 - 18: The Leonid meteor shower
  • 19: Saturn is opposite the sun in the sky
  • 25: New Moon
  • 27: Jupiter at opposition
  • 29: Venus is 2 degrees south of the moon

    Tomorrow night, the Moon can be said to be in the bull's face, positioned between Jupiter and Aldebaran, which marks the bull's angry red eye. You'll have to look through the Moon's glare to see Aldebaran clearly; binoculars will help here. At magnitude minus 2.6, however, Jupiter should nevertheless be visible, despite that it lies only slightly over 1 degree to the north.

    Sky Note: On this day in 1572, the Dutch astronomer Tycho Brahe observed a new star as bright as Jupiter shining forth in the constellation Cassiopeia. Chinese and European astronomers subsequently made observations of the supernova, which was eventually christened "Tycho's star." Brahe's careful observations of its position later helped astronomers identify Tycho's star with a known radio and X-ray source, the remnant of the supernova itself.

    Jupiter and its Moons in Real Time

    This image is of Jupiter and its moons as they appear right now -- click for a larger version. Image is updated every four hours. Time is given in Universal Time (UT), which is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is 5 hours ahead of EST. Images created using SPACE.com's Starry Night Pro.

     

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