Tuesday, November 8
At the moment is a busy day! First up, Full Moon happens at 6:02 A.M. EST. November’s Full Moon is also called the Beaver Moon. However this Beaver Moon is particular, as a result of it’s about to show pink. This morning, there’s a total lunar eclipse lasting 85 minutes. Everybody within the U.S. will see not less than a part of the eclipse, which would be the final total lunar eclipse seen from the nation till March 2025.
The primary stage of the eclipse, when the Moon slides into Earth’s lighter, outer shadow, begins simply after 3 A.M. EST. The partial eclipse, which is when Luna will begin to develop darkish, begins simply earlier than 4:10 A.M. EST. And totality lasts from 5:16 A.M. to six:41 A.M. EST, after which the Moon begins shifting out of the shadow. The partial eclipse then ends simply earlier than 7:50 A.M. EST, and all the factor concludes shortly earlier than 9 A.M. EST.
The Moon is presently in Aries, near the situation of magnitude 5.7 Uranus. Simply as totality begins, Uranus will sit 1.9° east of the Moon’s limb, throughout the area of view of binoculars or a small telescope. And for observers in some components of the world — northwestern Canada, Alaska, and jap Asia — the Moon will go in entrance of, or occult, Uranus across the time that the partial phase ends. Our satellite will later go 0.8° due north of Uranus at 8 A.M. EST.
Rounding out the occasions immediately is one you can’t see: Mercury reaches superior conjunction at midday EST. It’ll reappear within the night sky by early December.
Dawn: 6:37 A.M.
Sundown: 4:50 P.M.
Moonrise: 4:59 P.M.
Moonset: 6:46 A.M.
Moon Part: Full
Wednesday, November 9
Whether or not or not you noticed the Moon occult Uranus final night time, the ice giant is once more within the highlight as Uranus reaches opposition at 3 A.M. EST. The second-to-last planet within the solar system is seen all night time, so you possibly can choose to look at within the night after darkish or within the morning earlier than dawn.
Uranus is presently positioned in Aries; early this morning, the ice giant is 10° straight under (northwest of) the intense Moon. After sundown, the Moon has moved twice as far-off, now some 20° east-northeast of the planet.
Though Uranus’ magnitude 5.7 glow is likely to be seen to the sharp-eyed beneath darkish skies, the close by Moon means it’s positively a goal for binoculars or a telescope tonight. The planet’s disk seems simply 4″ throughout and it kinds the tip of a low, squat isosceles triangle with Rho (ρ) and Sigma (σ) Arietis forming the bottom between them.
For these craving a brighter goal, search for magnitude –2.7 Jupiter at dusk. As darkness grows on the East Coast, Europa is already transiting the planet’s broad disk. The big moon Ganymede follows, slipping onto Jupiter’s face at 7:15 P.M. EST. Forty-five minutes later, the 2 moons straddle the central meridian, with Europa to the west and Ganymede to the east. It’s fairly a picturesque sight. At the moment, Io lies in Jupiter’s lengthy, darkish shadow to the northeast; it would pop into view simply after 8:50 P.M. EST.
However there’s extra: Europa’s shadow lastly begins to transit at 8:06 P.M. EST, some half-hour earlier than the moon itself slides off the disk to the west. From then on, Ganymede leads its fellow moon’s shadow throughout the cloud tops. Ganymede leaves the disk at 10:03 P.M. EST, and Europa’s shadow lastly finishes its trek at 10:35 P.M. EST.
This sequence of occasions will repeat twice extra in November.
Dawn: 6:38 A.M.
Sundown: 4:49 P.M.
Moonrise: 5:32 P.M.
Moonset: 7:53 A.M.
Moon Part: Waning gibbous (98%)
