Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Thursday, November 17th.  The sun will rise at 7:41.  It’ll be up for 9 hours and 31 minutes, setting at 5:12.   The moon, 1 day before last quarter, will rise at 11:37 this evening.

High in the south at 9 p.m. are the four bright stars of the Great Square of Pegasus, the upside down flying horse.  Lying along the left and bottom sides of that square is the constellation of Pisces the fish, one of the 12 constellations of the Zodiac that lie along the path of the sun, moon and planets.  Even though the constellation is called the fish, the fish themselves are not represented in the stars.  What can be traced in the stars is the rope, that’s tied to their tails, anchored at the extreme southeastern part of the constellation.  Jupiter now is located just left of Pisces.  The right or western end of the Pisces is the asterism, or informal constellation, of the Circlet.  It’s the loop of 5 stars, the rope around the tail of one of the two fish.

* Times, as always are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan.

Addendum

Pisces and Jupiter. Created using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts)