Ephemeris: 11/13/2023 – Betelgeuse is acting weird again

November 13, 2023 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Monday, November 13th. Today the Sun will be up for 9 hours and 40 minutes, setting at 5:16, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:38. The Moon is new today, and won’t be visible.

The constellation Orion is rising early in the evening now so what’s up with Betelgeuse. Betelgeuse is the bright reddish upper leftmost star of the torso of Orion the hunter, it’s in his shoulder. Betelgeuse has been acting up lately. In 2019 and 2020 Betelgeuse had dimmed significantly. Astronomers didn’t know why at the time, but found out later that it ejected a large cloud of gas and dust which blocked the light from the star. Now in the last year Betelgeuse has increased its brightness significantly, so it’s much brighter than normal. Again, we don’t exactly know why. Some have speculated that Betelgeuse is about ready to go supernova. We’ve known that for a while, but soon is measured within hundreds of thousands of years. So astronomers are keeping an eye on Betelgeuse to see what happens next.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EST, UT –5 hours). They may be different for your location.

Addendum

Orion rising around 9:30 this evening, November 13, 2023. Created using Stellarium.
Betelgeuse before and after dimming
This comparison image shows the star Betelgeuse before and after its unprecedented dimming. The observations, taken with the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in January and December 2019, show how much the star has faded and how its part of it is dimmed by the presence of a dust cloud. Credit: ESO/M. Montargès et al.

Betelgeuse as recently seen from the Hubble Space Telescope
Betelgeuse as recently seen from the Hubble Space Telescope (Yes it is still in operation). It is not on the same scale as from ESO’s Very Large Telescope above. Credit: Andrea Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Ronald Gilliland (STScI), NASA and ESA.

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Ephemeris: 11/10/2023 – The Northern Taurid Meteor Shower reaches its peak Sunday night

November 10, 2023 Comments off

This is Bob Moler with Ephemeris for Friday, November 10th. Today the Sun will be up for 9 hours and 47 minutes, setting at 5:20, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:34. The Moon, 3 days before new, will rise at 5:38 tomorrow morning.

On Sunday night the North Taurid Meteor shower will reach its peak of about 15 meteors an hour. That’s not very many. However, there are reports that they are rather slow meteors and quite bright. They’re related to Encke’s comet. That comet has the shortest period of any comet of 3.3 years. So the meteoroid debris are not falling in from very far away from the Sun to reach us, so they’re moving rather slowly. The South Taurid meteor shower reached its peak last weekend with about the same number of meteors, and from the same comet. They’re also tangled up with something called the Antihelion meteor source, which is an ill-defined source of meteors which is directly opposite the Sun. Their radiant is near the Pleiades.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EST, UT –5 hours). They may be different for your location.

The Taurid and Antihelion meteor radiants for 11 pm November 12th, give or take a few days. The Pleiades are located to the upper left of the capital N in Northern. The meteors are seen all over the sky, but can be traced back as coming from their particular radiant. Created using Stellarium.
Screen capture of a simulated Encke meteor stream through the inner solar system. Jupiter’s orbit is orange, Mars is red, Earth’s is blue. Meteor data from Peter Jenniskens, visualization developed by Ian Webster. Access via the International Meteor Organization (https://www.imo.net/)

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Ephemeris: 11/09/2023 – The Milky Way will collide with the Great Andromeda Galaxy

November 9, 2023 Comments off

This is Bob Moler with Ephemeris for Thursday, November 9th. Today the Sun will be up for 9 hours and 49 minutes, setting at 5:21, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:32. The Moon, halfway from last quarter to new, will rise at 4:31 tomorrow morning.

Stars are at extreme distances compared to their sizes, even if one includes their planetary systems. Galaxies in a galaxy cluster are much closer with respect to their size. Astronomers have determined that our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Great Andromeda Galaxy, some two and a half million light years away, in about four and a half billion years. Don’t worry, it is very unlikely that any stars will collide during the event, though the solar system may be in for a wild ride. As the galaxies approach each other their beautiful spiral structures will begin to distort into tidal tails. Multiple passes of the two will occur before they will coalesce into one large elliptical galaxy. Other galaxies of the Local Group will join in over time.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EST, UT –5 hours). They may be different for your location.

Addendum

The Great Andromeda Galaxy, and companions
Here is the largest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way, the Great Andromeda Galaxy. It is annotated with Messier numbers M31, M32 and M110. M110 was given its number long after Messier’s passing, actually after I got in interested in astronomy. However, he had seen it but never numbered it. M110 shows in this particular picture by Dan Dall’Olmo, one of our members in the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society, what look to me to be the formation of tidal effects. Notice that M110 has glows away from its elliptical form towards and away from M31. These may be tidal effects, just as the Moon raises tides on the Earth on the side toward it and the side away from it. Image annotations are mine.
View from Earth-Andromeda collision
Original caption: This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth’s night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view and begins to distort the Milky Way with tidal pull. (Credit: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger)
Colliding galaxies. Note the tidal tails. Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA.
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Ephemeris: 11/08/2023 – Where have the naked-eye planets wandered off to this week?

November 8, 2023 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Wednesday, November 8th. Today the Sun will be up for 9 hours and 52 minutes, setting at 5:22, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:31. The Moon, 3 days past last quarter, will rise at 3:26 tomorrow morning.

Let’s find out where the naked-eye planets have wandered off to this week. Three of those five planets are now visible but both Mars and Mercury set too close to sunset to be seen. So, Saturn and Jupiter are the only evening planets visible. Saturn, seen against the stars of Aquarius, can be seen in the south in the evening. Saturn will be visible till almost 1 am. Jupiter is seen rising in the eastern sky in the evening, the brightest object in the sky. In Aries this year, Jupiter will be up all night. Venus, the brilliant morning star, will rise in the east-northeast at 3:29 am. It will be seen above the waning crescent Moon. In the southeast at 7 am in the bright morning twilight.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EST, UT –5 hours). They may be different for your location.

Addendum

The only planets visible in the evening are Jupiter and Saturn and facing southeast one can see Jupiter to the left and Saturn way off to the right just west of south. Also showing are the constellations of the Zodiac that they are in or near. Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. Created using Stellarium.
Here are Venus and the Moon at 6:45 am, when most people are up early enough to see them. It got me to thinking that maybe there may be an occultation (hiding) of Venus behind the Moon earlier in the morning, so I cranked it back three hours to just after Venus and the Moon rose. No occultation here (see below). Doing further checking I found out there is an area on the world that the occultation will be visible. Created using Stellarium.
Here are the moon and Venus at 3:45 AM about 15 minutes after they will rise tomorrow morning showing that we in Michigan are still too far south to see the occultation. Created using Stellarium.
This is a map of where the occultation will be visible on the Earth. It will be seen on the northern part of this map. The left loop is where the occultation will occur around moonrise and the right loop is where the occultation will occur near moonset. The southern boundary of the occultation is the line between the loops. On the left it is a solid white line. North of that the occultation will be seen at night. There’s a little portion of blue in which the occultation will be seen during twilight and the red dots, which above that is where the occultation will be visible during the daytime. Europe will be able to see the occultation during the daytime, Greenland mostly at night and the occultation will be visible also from the very northern islands of Canada. Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. The map was created using Occult version 4.
Telescopic Saturn, Jupiter and Venus (north up) as they would be seen in a small telescope, with the same magnification. At 8 pm November 8, 2023, for Saturn and Jupiter, and 6:45 am on the 9th, for Venus. Apparent diameters: Saturn 17.56″, its rings 40.92″; Jupiter 49.33″; and Venus 20.42″ and is 58.7% illuminated. The ” symbol means seconds of arc (1/3600th of a degree.) Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. Created using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts) and GIMP.
The naked-eye planets and the Moon at sunset and sunrise on a single night, starting with sunset on the right on November 8, 2023. The night ends on the left with sunrise on the 9th. Note that the labels for Venus and the Moon overlap each other. Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. Created using my LookingUp app and GIMP.

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Ephemeris: 11/07/2023 – How to find the Great Andromeda Galaxy

November 7, 2023 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Election Day for some, Tuesday, November 7th. Today the Sun will be up for 9 hours and 55 minutes, setting at 5:23, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:30. The Moon, 2 days past last quarter, will rise at 2:22 tomorrow morning.

The closest large galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy is the Great Andromeda Galaxy, seen high in the eastern sky when it gets dark. It is barely visible to the naked eye. To locate it, first find a large square of stars high in the east-southeast standing on one corner, the Great Square of Pegasus. The left star of the square is the head of the constellation Andromeda. Follow two stars to the left and a bit downward, then two stars straight up. The galaxy is near that last star as a small smudge of light. Binoculars are the best way to see it as a thin spindle of light. Using a telescope, one can see, besides its nucleus, its two satellite galaxies.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EST, UT –5 hours). They may be different for your location.

Addendum

How to find the Great Andromeda Galaxy (M31) from the Great Square of Pegasus by star-hopping. Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. Created using Stellarium, LibreOffice Impress, and an animated slide from my presentation “Stars, Stories and Galaxies of Autumn”, and GIMP.
Great Andromeda Galaxy
The Great Andromeda Galaxy (M31) as it might be seen in binoculars. Visually even in a telescope the hub of this galaxy is all that is seen. However, it can also be seen with the naked eye. My photograph.
This is a long exposure photograph of The Great Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and two of its satellite galaxies, M32 and M110. To the eye in binoculars or telescope only the glow inside the first dust band is visible. It takes long exposure photography to reveal the galaxy’s extent. Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. Image credit: One of our local amateur astronomers and astrophotographers, Dan Dall’Olmo, another slide from my autumn presentation.

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Ephemeris: 11/06/2023 – The Pleiades or Seven Sisters

November 6, 2023 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Monday, November 6th. Today the Sun will be up for 9 hours and 57 minutes, setting at 5:25, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:28. The Moon, 1 day past last quarter, will rise at 1:18 tomorrow morning.

A marvelous member of the autumn skies can be found low in the east after 8 in the evening. It is the famous star cluster called the Pleiades or the Seven Sisters. I might also add the ‘Tiny Dipper’. Many people can spot a tiny dipper shape in its six or seven stars, and mistake it for the Little Dipper. With binoculars, one can see over a hundred stars appear, along with the dipper shape of the brightest. In photographs, the Pleiades actually contain wisps of the dust they are currently passing through. In Greek mythology, the sisters were daughters of the god Atlas and Pleione.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EST, UT –5 hours). They may be different for your location.

Addendum

Pleiades Rising
The Pleiades rising at 8 p.m. in early November. Created using Stellarium.
The Pleiades and Hyades
According to Greek mythology, this is a family portrait of the daughters of the god Atlas. The Hyades, which are also seen as the face of the constellation Taurus the bull, are the half sisters of the Pleiades. Astronomically, they are the older sisters. The Pleiades is the splashier of the two star clusters, being much younger, and having their hottest and brightest stars not yet having burned out. The Pleiades is three times farther away than the Hyades. The first magnitude star Aldebaran is not a member of the Hyades and is about half their distance away. The underlying photograph is mine.
The dusty reflection nebula surrounding and illuminated by the stars of the Pleiades
The dusty reflection nebula surrounding and illuminated by the stars of the Pleiades. Credit Dan Dall’Olmo.

I’ll be coming back to the Pleiades from time to time over the autumn and winter months to cover, especially, the mythology of the Pleiades from different cultures.

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Ephemeris: 11/03/2023 – GTAS meeting tonight

November 3, 2023 Comments off

This is Bob Moler with Ephemeris for Friday, November 3rd. The Sun will rise at 8:23. It’ll be up for 10 hours and 5 minutes, setting at 6:28. The Moon, 2 days before last quarter, will rise at 11:00 this evening.

A documentary on the astronomical life of Jack Newton will be shown tonight at 8 pm at the meeting of the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society at Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory, and on Zoom. Jack Newton is a rather famous Canadian amateur astronomer and a pioneer in astrophotography starting in the days before digital photography. After the meeting, at 9 pm, if it’s clear the society will host a star party to view the dark autumn skies including Saturn. The observatory is located south of Traverse City on Birmley Road between Garfield and Keystone roads. Zoom instructions will be at gtastro.org. On Sunday we get to fall back an hour, and get an extra hour of sleep as we go back an hour to standard time.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EDT, UT –4 hours). They may be different for your location.

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Ephemeris: 11/02/2023 – Jupiter is at opposition from the Sun tonight

November 2, 2023 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Thursday, November 2nd. The Sun will rise at 8:21. It’ll be up for 10 hours and 8 minutes, setting at 6:30. The Moon, 3 days before last quarter, will rise at 9:57 this evening.

Tonight the planet Jupiter is at opposition from the Sun. It is the time when the Earth is directly between the Sun and Jupiter, so that Jupiter rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. So for the next 6 or so months Jupiter will be in the evening sky and officially an evening planet. To the naked eye Jupiter is the second brightest planet after Venus and without Venus in the sky it may be mistaken for Jupiter. In binoculars Jupiter appears very bright and not quite star-like. It also has several of its moons that are visible in binoculars. These are its Galilean moons discovered by Galileo back in 1609. In telescopes four can be seen although not all of them may be visible at one time because the moons move back and forth from one side to the other of the planet.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EDT, UT –4 hours). They may be different for your location.

Addendum

Jupiter and its four Galilean moons as seen for six consecutive nights starting tonight November 2nd (top) through November 7th, 2023 (bottom). Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. Created using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts) and GIMP.

Follow Jupiter’s moons with this tool: Sky & Telescope’s Interactive Tool for Observing Jupiter’s Moons.

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Ephemeris: 11/01/2023 – It’s 11/1, do you know where your naked-eye planets are?

November 1, 2023 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Wednesday, November 1st. The Sun will rise at 8:20. It’ll be up for 10 hours and 11 minutes, setting at 6:31. The Moon, halfway from full to last quarter, will rise at 8:58 this evening.

Let’s find out where the naked-eye planets have wandered off to this week. Three of those five planets are now visible, but Mars and Mercury set too close to sunset to be seen. Saturn is the sole official evening planet visible. It can be spotted in the southeast to south in the evening. And it will still be visible in the morning hours until it sets at 2:21 am. Saturn is seen against the stars of Aquarius this year and next. Jupiter and Venus are the visible morning planets. Jupiter, still a morning planet for one more day, will rise at 6:34 pm. It’s in Aries this year. Jupiter has to rise before sunset to be an evening planet. Venus, the brilliant morning star, will rise in the east-northeast at 4:18 am.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EDT, UT –4 hours). They may be different for your location.

Addendum

Jupiter and Saturn with the rising waning gibbous Moon tonight at 9 pm, November 1st, 2023. Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. Created using Stellarium.
The waning gibbous Moon halfway from full to last quarter at 10 pm tonight, November 1, 2023. Created using Stellarium, LibreOffice Draw, and GIMP.
Morning planets and the Moon at 7 am tomorrow, November 2, 2023. Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. Created using Stellarium.
Telescopic Saturn, Jupiter and Venus (north up) as they would be seen in a small telescope, with the same magnification. At 10 pm November 1, 2023, for Saturn and Jupiter, and 7 am on the 2nd, for Venus. Apparent diameters: Saturn 17.77″, its rings 41.40″; Jupiter 49.50″; and Venus 21.80″ and is 55.4% illuminated. The ” symbol means seconds of arc (1/3600th of a degree.) Created using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts).
The naked-eye planets and the Moon at sunset and sunrise on a single night, starting with sunset on the right on November 1, 2023. The night ends on the left with sunrise on the 2nd. Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. Created using my LookingUp app and GIMP.
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Ephemeris: 10/31/2023 – Previewing November skies

October 31, 2023 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Halloween, Tuesday, October 31st. Today the Sun will be up for 10 hours and 13 minutes, setting at 6:33, and it will rise tomorrow at 8:20. The Moon, 3 days past full, will rise at 8:09 this evening.

Let’s take a look at November skies. The time change back to standard time will set us back an hour on sunrise and sunset times, so it’ll be brighter in the morning and darker in the evening starting Sunday, the 5th. Out east in New York City, the Sun is already setting before 5 p.m. It will never set that early here. The Sun will be up for 10 hours 11 minutes on the 1st, and that will dwindle down to 9 hours and 5 minutes at month’s end. The Sun reaches 30 ½ degrees above the southern horizon at local apparent solar noon on the 1st, which is around 12:25 p.m. this month. It will drop to 23 ½ degrees on the 30th. As the Earth orbits the Sun now, the North Pole of the Earth is tilting farther and farther away from the Sun providing us with less of its heat. The Leonid meteor shower, peaking on the 18th, is expected to be lackluster this year. We are about 9 or 10 years away from the time that the Leonids become spectacular again as they do every 33 or so years. Jupiter will reach opposition from the Sun on the 2nd, and Mars will be in conjunction with the Sun on the 17th.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EDT, UT –4 hours). They may be different for your location.

Addendum

November Evening Star Chart

Star Chart for November evenings, 2023 (9 pm EST November 15, 2023). Click on the image to enlarge it. Created using my LookingUp program.

The planets and stars are plotted for the 15th at 9 p.m. EST in the evening and 6 a.m. for the morning chart. These are the chart times. Note that Traverse City is located approximately 45 minutes behind our time meridian, West 75° longitude. (An hour 45 minutes behind our daylight saving time meridian during EDT). To duplicate the star positions on a planisphere you may have to set it to 45 minutes earlier than the current time.

Star Chart for November mornings, 2023 (6 a.m. EST November 15, 2023). Click on the image to enlarge it. Created using my LookingUp program.

For a list of constellation names to go with the abbreviations, click here.

  • Pointer stars at the front of the bowl of the Big Dipper point to Polaris, the North Star.
  • Follow the arc of the handle of the Big Dipper to the star Arcturus
  • The Summer Triangle is in red.
  • TauR on the evening star chart can be used as the radiant for the North and South Taurid meteor showers. For dates see NASA Calendar of Planetary Events below
  • LeoR on the morning star chart is the radiant of the Leonid meteor shower, which peaks on the morning of the 18th.

Twilight Limits, Nautical and Astronomical

      EDT/EST        
  Morning Twilight Evening Twilight Dark Night Moon
Date Astro. Nautical Nautical Astro. Start End Illum.
2023-11-01 6h47m 7h21m 19h40m 20h14m 20h14m 20h59m 0.79
2023-11-02 6h48m 7h22m 19h39m 20h12m 20h12m 21h57m 0.70
2023-11-03 6h49m 7h23m 19h37m 20h11m 20h11m 23h01m 0.61
2023-11-04 6h50m 7h24m 19h36m 20h10m 20h10m – 0.52
2023-11-05 5h52m 6h26m 18h35m 19h09m 19h09m – 0.42
2023-11-06 5h53m 6h27m 18h34m 19h08m 19h08m 0h13m 0.33
2023-11-07 5h54m 6h28m 18h33m 19h07m 19h07m 1h19m 0.24
2023-11-08 5h55m 6h29m 18h32m 19h06m 19h06m 2h23m 0.17
2023-11-09 5h56m 6h30m 18h31m 19h05m 19h05m 3h26m 0.10
2023-11-10 5h57m 6h32m 18h30m 19h04m 19h04m 4h31m 0.05
2023-11-11 5h59m 6h33m 18h29m 19h03m 19h03m 5h38m 0.01
2023-11-12 6h00m 6h34m 18h28m 19h02m 19h02m 6h00m 0.00
2023-11-13 6h01m 6h35m 18h27m 19h01m 19h01m 6h01m 0.01
2023-11-14 6h02m 6h36m 18h26m 19h00m 19h00m 6h02m 0.04
2023-11-15 6h03m 6h38m 18h25m 18h59m 18h59m 6h03m 0.09
2023-11-16 6h04m 6h39m 18h24m 18h59m 19h35m 6h04m 0.16
2023-11-17 6h05m 6h40m 18h23m 18h58m 20h46m 6h05m 0.26
2023-11-18 6h07m 6h41m 18h23m 18h57m 22h04m 6h07m 0.36
2023-11-19 6h08m 6h42m 18h22m 18h56m 23h24m 6h08m 0.47
2023-11-20 6h09m 6h43m 18h21m 18h56m – 6h09m 0.59
2023-11-21 6h10m 6h45m 18h20m 18h55m 0h43m 6h10m 0.70
2023-11-22 6h11m 6h46m 18h20m 18h55m 2h01m 6h11m 0.80
2023-11-23 6h12m 6h47m 18h19m 18h54m 3h17m 6h12m 0.88
2023-11-24 6h13m 6h48m 18h19m 18h54m 4h34m 6h13m 0.94
2023-11-25 6h14m 6h49m 18h18m 18h53m 5h51m 6h14m 0.98
2023-11-26 6h15m 6h50m 18h18m 18h53m – – 1.00
2023-11-27 6h16m 6h51m 18h17m 18h52m – – 0.99
2023-11-28 6h17m 6h52m 18h17m 18h52m – – 0.96
2023-11-29 6h18m 6h53m 18h17m 18h52m – – 0.91
2023-11-30 6h19m 6h54m 18h16m 18h51m 18h51m 19h45m 0.85

Twilight calendar was generated using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts).

See my blog post: Twilight Zone for the definitions of the different periods of twilight here: https://bobmoler.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/.

NASA Calendar of Planetary Events

Nov  1  We            Venus: 46.2° W
     2  Th  12:12 am  Moon North Dec.: 28.3° N
     2  Th  10:44 pm  Jupiter Opposition
     3  Fr   1:31 pm  Moon-Pollux: 1.6° N
     5  Su   3:37 am  Last Quarter
     5  Su   7:17 pm  South Taurid Shower: ZHR = 10
     6  Mo   4:49 pm  Moon Apogee: 404,600 km
     9  Th   4:28 am  Moon-Venus: 1.1° S
    11  Sa  12:09 am  Moon-Spica: 2.6° S
    11  Sa   3:49 am  Moon Descending Node
    12  Su   6:34 pm  North Taurid Shower: ZHR = 15
    13  Mo   4:27 am  New Moon
    13  Mo  12:32 pm  Uranus Opposition
    16  Th   9:45 am  Moon South Dec.: 28.2° S
    16  Th   4:17 pm  Mercury-Antares: 2.5° N
    17  Fr  11:48 pm  Mars Solar Conjunction
    18  Sa  12:51 am  Leonid Shower: ZHR = 15
    20  Mo   5:50 am  First Quarter
    20  Mo   9:02 am  Moon-Saturn: 2.8° N
    21  Tu   4:03 pm  Moon Perigee: 369,800 km
    24  Fr   6:02 am  Moon Ascending Node
    25  Sa   6:10 am  Moon-Jupiter: 2.8° S
    26  Su   7:02 pm  Moon-Pleiades: 1.2° N
    27  Mo   4:16 am  Full Beaver Moon
    29  We   5:29 am  Venus-Spica: 4.2° N
    29  We   9:08 am  Moon North Dec.: 28.2° N
    30  Th  10:23 pm  Moon-Pollux: 1.7° N
Dec  1  Fr            Venus: 42.9° W

All event times for November 1-4 are given for UTC-4 Eastern Daylight Saving Time. For dates after that, times are given for UTC-5 Eastern Standard Time.

Sky Events Calendar by Fred Espenak and Sumit Dutta (NASA’s GSFC),
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SKYCAL/SKYCAL.html.

If you go to the above site, you can print out a list like the above for the entire year or calendar pages for your time zone.

Sun and Moon Rising and Setting Times

     LU                  Ephemeris of Sky Events for Interlochen/TC
November, 2023    Local time zone: EDT
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| DATE |  SUN     SUN  DAYLIGHT|   TWILIGHT*    |MOON  RISE OR    ILLUM |
|      |  RISE    SET    HOURS |  END    START  |PHASE SET** TIME FRACTN|
+=======================================================================+
|Wed  1| 08:20a  06:31p  10:11 | 07:36p  07:15a |      Rise 08:58p   81%|
|Thu  2| 08:21a  06:30p  10:08 | 07:35p  07:16a |      Rise 09:57p   72%|
|Fri  3| 08:23a  06:28p  10:05 | 07:34p  07:18a |      Rise 11:00p   63%|
|Sat  4| 08:24a  06:27p  10:03 | 07:32p  07:19a |      Rise 12:07a   53%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
| EST  |      Time Change      |                |                       |
|Sun  5| 07:25a  05:26p  10:00 | 06:31p  06:20a |L Qtr Rise 12:13a   44%|
|Mon  6| 07:27a  05:25p  09:57 | 06:30p  06:21a |      Rise 01:18a   35%|
|Tue  7| 07:28a  05:23p  09:55 | 06:29p  06:22a |      Rise 02:22a   26%|
|Wed  8| 07:30a  05:22p  09:52 | 06:28p  06:24a |      Rise 03:26a   18%|
|Thu  9| 07:31a  05:21p  09:49 | 06:27p  06:25a |      Rise 04:31a   11%|
|Fri 10| 07:32a  05:20p  09:47 | 06:26p  06:26a |      Rise 05:38a    6%|
|Sat 11| 07:34a  05:19p  09:44 | 06:25p  06:27a |      Rise 06:47a    2%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 12| 07:35a  05:17p  09:42 | 06:24p  06:28a |      Rise 08:00a    0%|
|Mon 13| 07:36a  05:16p  09:40 | 06:23p  06:30a |New   Set  05:13p    0%|
|Tue 14| 07:38a  05:15p  09:37 | 06:22p  06:31a |      Set  05:48p    3%|
|Wed 15| 07:39a  05:14p  09:35 | 06:21p  06:32a |      Set  06:35p    8%|
|Thu 16| 07:40a  05:13p  09:32 | 06:20p  06:33a |      Set  07:34p   15%|
|Fri 17| 07:42a  05:12p  09:30 | 06:20p  06:34a |      Set  08:45p   24%|
|Sat 18| 07:43a  05:12p  09:28 | 06:19p  06:36a |      Set  10:03p   34%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 19| 07:44a  05:11p  09:26 | 06:18p  06:37a |      Set  11:23p   45%|
|Mon 20| 07:46a  05:10p  09:24 | 06:18p  06:38a |F Qtr Set  12:42a   56%|
|Tue 21| 07:47a  05:09p  09:22 | 06:17p  06:39a |      Set  02:00a   67%|
|Wed 22| 07:48a  05:08p  09:20 | 06:16p  06:40a |      Set  03:17a   78%|
|Thu 23| 07:50a  05:08p  09:18 | 06:16p  06:41a |      Set  04:33a   86%|
|Fri 24| 07:51a  05:07p  09:16 | 06:15p  06:42a |      Set  05:51a   93%|
|Sat 25| 07:52a  05:06p  09:14 | 06:15p  06:43a |      Set  07:09a   98%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 26| 07:53a  05:06p  09:12 | 06:14p  06:45a |      Set  08:25a  100%|
|Mon 27| 07:54a  05:05p  09:10 | 06:14p  06:46a |Full  Rise 05:01p   99%|
|Tue 28| 07:56a  05:05p  09:08 | 06:13p  06:47a |      Rise 05:47p   97%|
|Wed 29| 07:57a  05:04p  09:07 | 06:13p  06:48a |      Rise 06:42p   92%|
|Thu 30| 07:58a  05:04p  09:05 | 06:13p  06:49a |      Rise 07:44p   86%|
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* Nautical Twilight
** Moonrise or moonset, whichever occurs between sunrise and sunset

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