Ephemeris: 11/03/2026 – Taurus contains two bright star clusters
This is Ephemeris for Election Day, Tuesday, November 3rd. Today the Sun will be up for 10 hours and 5 minutes, setting at 5:28, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:24. The Moon, 2 days past last quarter, will rise at 2:21 tomorrow morning.
At 8 to 9 p.m. The constellation of Taurus the bull rises higher in the east to southeast. Taurus contains two bright clusters of stars. The most famous of these is the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters. The other is a letter V shape that is the face of Taurus the bull, and called the Hyades located below them as they rise in the autumn sky. In the Greek mythology they are half-sisters of each other, all fathered by the Titan Atlas with Aethra. They are apparently fleeing, as are the Pleiades, from the giant Orion, soon to rise in the east. The bright orange star, Aldebaran, a first magnitude star at one end of the V, is not part of the cluster. It is about half as far. Aldebaran means Follower, because it follows the Pleiades, as they move east to west in the sky as the Earth rotates.
The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EST, UT – 5 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.
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