Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Monday, November 5th.  The sun will rise at 7:26.  It’ll be up for 9 hours and 59 minutes, setting at 5:25.   The moon, 1 day before last quarter, will rise at 11:02 this evening.

One of the constellations of the zodiac is in the south sky at 9 in the evening.  It’s the constellation of Aquarius the water bearer.  The image that is supposed to be depicted in the stars is that of a hapless fellow spilling a stone jar of water across the sky.  Aquarius is fairly hard to spot because it is made of faint stars.  One part of him, though, is easy to spot.  That is the Water Jar, an asterism or informal constellation.  It is a distinctive small nearly equilateral triangle of stars with another star in the center.  Stars extending to the right from the water jar are that stream of water.  The Water Jar is just below the top of the head of the upside down Pegasus the flying horse.  The body of Aquarius is below, a misshapen deflated balloon of stars.

Times are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan.  They may be different for your location.

Addendum

Aquarius and surrounding constellations 9 p.m. November 5, 2012. Created using Cart duCiel (Sky Charts)