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Leonids, overturned Uranus and the Summer Triangle: November celestial events

2022-11-01T14:36:08.924Z


Leonids, inverted Uranus and Summer Triangle: Numerous sky events in November Created: 01/11/2022, 15:00 Several sky events flicker across the sky in November, shooting stars in particular are likely to be seen in many places in Germany. With the changeover of clocks to Central European Standard Time, twilight sets in earlier. The giant planet Jupiter is the first bright point of light to appea


Leonids, inverted Uranus and Summer Triangle: Numerous sky events in November

Created: 01/11/2022, 15:00

Several sky events flicker across the sky in November, shooting stars in particular are likely to be seen in many places in Germany.

With the changeover of clocks to Central European Standard Time, twilight sets in earlier.

The giant planet Jupiter is the first bright point of light to appear in the eastern sky.

In the increasing darkness, the ringed planet Saturn can also be seen in the southern sky - although it is not as strikingly bright as Jupiter.

The giant planet dominates the first half of the night, and gradually withdraws from the second half, reports Merkur.de.

Celestial Events in November: Mars shines on the NE horizon, Mercury and Venus do not show

The third bright planet, reddish Mars appears just after 7 p.m. above the northeast horizon.

Earth's outer neighbor planet is in the constellation Taurus.

It becomes the planet of the entire night in the current month.

At the end of November, Mars rises at half past four in the afternoon.

Its brightness continues to increase sharply as Earth approaches it.

The planets Mercury and Venus, which move within the Earth's orbit, do not appear in November.

Only at the end of December do both appear in the evening sky.

Several sky events will be visible in November.

(Iconic image) © Marcus Führer/dpa

Far away from the Sun, Uranus arrives in the constellation of Aries on November 9th in counter light – in opposition – to the Sun.

The greenish planet is represented in the firmament all night.

It is so faint that it can theoretically only be seen with the naked eye under extremely good visibility conditions.

The planet, which was first discovered by Wilhelm Herschel in 1781, can be seen well in binoculars.

At opposition we are 2,795 million kilometers from Uranus.

The light from Uranus reaches Earth after two and a half hours.

November celestial events: Uranus apparently toppled

The gas planet takes an entire human lifetime, namely 84 years to orbit the sun once.

Five major moons - Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon - accompany him on his way.

The Voyager 2 spacecraft, the only scout to fly past Uranus in January 1986, has detected more than a dozen mini-moons.

A total of 27 satellites of Uranus are known to date.

In addition, Uranus is surrounded by thirteen rings.

However, they are much dimmer and thinner than Saturn's rings, which is why they cannot be seen in terrestrial telescopes.

The fact that Uranus has apparently toppled over appears to be a curiosity.

Its axis of rotation is inclined at 98 degrees to its plane of orbit.

Simulation calculations at the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University in England using high-performance computers have shown that in the early days of our solar system around four billion years ago, the proto-Uranus that was about to form was hit by a huge impact body that knocked it over, so to speak.

November Celestial Events: Waxing crescent moon meets ringed planet

The earth was also hit by cosmic projectiles more often in the past.

On average, every hundred million years, a planetoid one kilometer in diameter or larger collides with our home planet.

Should such a small planet hit the earth, it would probably be the end of mankind.

Therefore, the universe is monitored and countermeasures are developed.

In a test mission by the US space agency NASA, the planetoid Dimorphos was recently successfully deflected in its orbit.

At the end of September, NASA scientists had the "Dart" probe collide with Dimorphos.

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The waxing crescent meets the ringed planet on the evening of November 1st.

It is passing south of Saturn.

Three days later, the moon will pass just south of Jupiter.

The full moon phase is reached on the 8th at 12.02 in the constellation Aries.

Since the moon crosses the earth's orbital plane from south to north on the same day, it is hit by the earth's shadow and a total lunar eclipse occurs.

But before the moon enters the shadow of the earth, it sets in Germany.

Thus, this cosmic shadow play escapes us in this country.

Three days after the full moon, the waning moon meets the reddish Mars in Taurus on the border with Gemini.

New moon is reached three minutes before midnight on the 23rd.

Celestial events in November: Leonids shooting stars visible

In the second half of November, the Leonids meteor shower becomes active.

Maximum activity is expected on November 17, when about 15 shooting stars per hour can be expected.

The Leonids trace their origins to comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, which scattered debris from its nucleus, which is just under four kilometers across, along its orbit.

Its orbital period around the sun is 33 years.

In recent years, there have been significantly higher fall rates.

Sometimes 300 and more meteors per hour were counted.

The Leonids are heading in the opposite direction to Earth, which is coming towards them.

They penetrate the earth's atmosphere at 70 kilometers per second, which corresponds to 252,000 kilometers per hour, and burn up.

A fist-sized meteoroid creates a glaring ball of fire that shines brighter than the full moon.

Expect surprises this time.

Meteorologists have calculated that in 1733 a large cloud of debris was split off from the main Leonid stream by solar wind and gravitational effects.

The earth collides with this on November 18 in the early morning hours, possibly flaring up to 300 meteors every hour.

Summer triangle with Vega, Deneb and Atair is in the sky

In the beginning darkness around 6 p.m. the summer constellations can still be seen.

The Summer Triangle of Vega, Deneb, and Atair is high in the southern sky, while Hercules and the Northern Crown can be seen to the northwest.

The gunner is holding his position to the south-west.

Four hours later, at 10 p.m. standard observation time, the transition to the autumn sky is complete.

Far to the south, the Autumn Quadrangle takes its place, known as Pegasus Square.

The chain of stars of Andromeda joins the autumn square in the north-east, followed by Perseus with his winged shoes.

To the south of Andromeda is the obtuse triangle of stars of Aries.

In the east, the first winter constellations have risen with Taurus, Gemini and Orion.

High in the northeast, the bright, yellowish capella in the Fuhrmann blinks.

Both with the naked eye and in a telescope you only see a single point of light.

In fact, it is a double sun 42 light-years away.

Both yellow giant suns orbit each other in just 104 days.

They are 97 million kilometers apart, which corresponds to two thirds of the distance between earth and sun.

The sun wanders on the descending branch of its annual path and approaches the winter point, which it will reach next month.

On the 22nd in the morning she enters the zodiac sign Sagittarius.

A day later, in the afternoon, she changes from the constellation of Libra to that of Scorpio.

She only stays in Scorpio for a week.

Already on the 30th she crosses the border to Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer.

The midday height of the sun will decrease by a good seven degrees, and the length of the day will shrink by one hour and twenty minutes.

Numerous celestial events can also be seen in October.

Source: merkur

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