Starry skies in November: what to see in the night sky – Web & Knowledge

By Hans-Ulrich Keller October 28, 2018 – 14:56

In the starry sky, the march of winter images began. The golden age of Mars is over – it is losing its luminosity. In the southern sky, a wonderful star can be seen in the constellation Walfisch.

Stuttgart – Venus changed sides. In recent months, she has been portrayed as a bright star in the evening sky. At the end of October, she pbaded the Earth in the inner lane. The first third of November is already starting its morning star period. On the 10th, Venus arrives shortly after 6:30 am, at 4:17 am end of November. During the month, he becomes a striking star in the morning sky and shines in early December in the greatest glory of the Eastern sky. Anyone looking east on a clear morning can hardly miss Venus. At half past eight, the morning star fades in the increasing brightness.

Mars remains the catchy star of the first half of the night, even though its beautiful summer days have pbaded and it continues to lose its luminosity. The red planet wanders through the constellation Capricorn and transforms into Aquarius on November 11th. From the 15th to the 16th, the crescent crescent pbades from Mars to the south. This is a great opportunity to follow the speed of the moon through the stars. Just before midnight, Mars sinks under the southwest horizon.

Saturn is hard to spot

We can still see Saturn in the evening sky. The pale planet is not as bright as Mars. By the end of November, it will be difficult to spot Saturn without binoculars after dark. He lives in the constellation Sagittarius, whose stars are much weaker than Saturn and are therefore barely visible in the skies of the city.

Jupiter is removed from the evening sky. The giant planet remains in the daytime sky and remains hidden at night. On the 26th, the sun surpbades it in the constellation Libra. That day he reaches the greatest distance on earth. It then separates 949 million kilometers from us, more than six times the distance between the earth and the sun.

Mercury remains invisible in our latitudes despite its greater eastern angular separation of 23 degrees on November 6th. In southern countries, however, one can see the agile planet during the first week of November at twilight in the southwest.

Full moon in the constellation of Taurus

On the 7th, the new moon phase takes place at 17:02. The full moon is reached on the 23rd at 6:39 in the constellation Taurus. The full moon describes a great arc above the sky and stands at the ominous high hour in the southern sky. On the 14th, at Erdferne, it separates 404,340 kilometers from us and on the 26th it is 366,620 kilometers.

The current of shooting stars Leonids will be active from November 13 to 30. On the night of 17 to 18, the maximum is expected. This time, a modest drop rate of 15 meteors per hour is more likely. The 55P / Temple-Tuttle debris cloud is on a collision course with the Earth. She comes to the ground at 40 kilometers per second. The earth runs to the Leonids at 30 kilometers per second. For example, meteoroids penetrate at a speed of 70 km / s – which corresponds to 252 000 km / h – into the air envelope, the most severely burned.

Autumn images dominate the fixed starry sky of the evening. Easy to recognize, it is the square of autumn. The star square marks the main part of Pegasus. Around 22 hours, it has already moved a little to the southwest and has therefore exceeded the limit of noon. The autumn quadrilateral is followed by the Andromeda star range in the northeastern direction. By very good visibility, you can already see with the naked eye a very pale light point, the famous Andromeda nebula.

500 billion suns

With nearly 500 billion suns, this neighboring galaxy is more stellar than our galaxy The Milky Way. Nearly three million years, the light of their stars reaches us. The Andromeda galaxy is the most distant object that one can still see the free eyes. Our galaxy of the Milky Way and Andromeda are getting closer and will blend into an oversized elliptical galaxy in about five billion years.

Above our heads is the sky-W, the constellation Cbadiopeia. The median vertex of W points approximately in the direction of Polarstern. He shows us the direction of the north. South of Andromeda and Pegasus, you will encounter the small but important constellation of Aries as well as the extensive constellation of fish. It is composed only of weak stars. At the bottom of the southern sky, the whale takes its place. He too is difficult to identify.

A wonderful star

In the whale, a star appears in November that has not been seen in recent months. He's called Mira Ceti, the wonderful star of the whale. Cetus is the Latin name of the sea monster, which is neither a whale nor a fish in the zoological sense. Mira, also known as Omikron Ceti, was discovered in 1596 by Pastor David Fabricius, a pastor of East Frisia. He noticed a star that he had never seen before. After several weeks, the star disappeared again to reappear months later. We know today that Mira is a red and thrilling giant star. It can only be seen from the maximum brightness.

In the eastern sky, the march of winter images began. The keystrokes are bull and twin. At the bottom of the southeast, Orion, the sky hunter, appeared. He is the star director of the winter. High in the northeast, the bright and yellow Kapella, the star of the star of the car, shines.

The sun is walking along the descending branch of its annual line, approaching the winter point it will reach next month. On the 22nd, she enters the Sagittarius zodiac in the morning. A day later, she moves from the Libra constellation to that of Scorpio in the afternoon. The height of the sun at noon is reduced by seven degrees, the duration of the day diminishes in Stuttgart by one hour and seventeen minutes.