Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Friday, November 9th.  The sun will rise at 7:31.  It’ll be up for 9 hours and 48 minutes, setting at 5:20.   The moon, 3 days past last quarter, will rise at 3:29 tomorrow morning.

High in the south at 9 p.m. can be seen the Great Square of Pegasus.  From the top left star of the square diverge two curved lines of stars that is Andromeda the chained princess.  Just below and left of Andromeda is a slender triangle of stars, none particularly bright.  It has a name you can easily see in the stars, Triangulum, the triangle.  It has been known from antiquity, and early Christians saw it as the Mitre of Saint Peter or the Trinity.  Another small constellation seen below Triangulum is the much better known constellation Aries the ram.  It is the first constellation of the Zodiac, where the sun used to to enter on the first day of spring.  Aries is a small hockey stick constellation, not that hard to spot.

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

Addendum

Cetus, Triangulum, Aries and surrounding constellations on November 8, 2012 at 9 p.m. Created using Stellarium.