{"id":21033,"date":"2023-11-06T13:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/eyes-on-the-sky-update-for-11-6-11-12\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T13:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T18:22:32","slug":"eyes-on-the-sky-update-for-11-6-11-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/eyes-on-the-sky-update-for-11-6-11-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes on the Sky Update for 11\/6 &#8211; 11\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Eyes on the Sky Update<\/h5>\n<p><strong>for<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>Monday, November 6, 2023 \u2013 Sunday, November 12, 2023<\/h6>\n<p><strong>Monday, Nov. 6<\/strong> \u2013 Look for Saturn in the south-southeast about 6 p.m.\u00a0 To the unaided eye, Saturn will look like an ordinary \u201cstar.\u201d\u00a0 Far below Saturn is a lone bright star called Fomalhaut, the brightest star of the Southern Fish, Pisces Austrinus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, Nov. 7<\/strong> \u2013 The waning crescent moon is seen against the stars of Leo, near its brightest star, Regulus.\u00a0 Venus blazes to the lower left of the pair; all three are in the east-southeast around 5 a.m., an hour before dawn begins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, Nov. 8<\/strong> \u2013 The waning lunar crescent is above Venus in the east-southeast, again around 5 a.m., about one and a half hours before sunrise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, Nov. 9<\/strong> \u2013 Spectacular pairing of the lunar crescent and Venus.\u00a0 Binoculars will show an impressive view of both celestial objects in the same field-of-view.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, Nov. 10<\/strong> \u2013 Orion\u2019s belt stars have risen over the eastern horizon by 8:30 p.m. and the middle of the Summer Triangle \u2013 made up of the stars Altair, Deneb, and Vega \u2013 are hovering halfway up the sky in the west.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the Big Dipper is riding low in the north.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, Nov. 11<\/strong> \u2013 4 percent illuminated crescent moon (very thin) to the lower left of Spica, the marker star of Virgo, both are far below Venus and near the horizon.\u00a0 Look to the east-southeast after 5 a.m., binoculars enhance the view.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, Nov. 12<\/strong> \u2013 Minor meteor shower call the Northern Taurids peaks during this night.\u00a0 As seen from a dark location, an enhancement of only 5 to 10 meteors per hour over the background rate of meteors which is about the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:22:32 +0000 by\u00a0e.bryant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Eyes on the Sky Update for Monday, November 6, 2023 \u2013 Sunday, November 12, 2023 Monday, Nov. 6 \u2013&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}