It's currently a little above the midpoint between the two. You might have a chance at it with binoculars or a wide-field scope. About 15 or 20 minutes after sunset, scan for it just above your horizon due west. Good luck. Venus , brilliant at magnitude —4.
It still sets around twilight's end. Jupiter and Saturn shine in the southeast to south these evenings. They're magnitudes —2. Jupiter starts the evening as slightly the lower of the two. They level out around 9 or 10 p. By then they're about at their highest in the south at their telescopic best. After that they start to tilt the other way, with Saturn now the lower one.
Neptune magnitude 7. All descriptions that relate to your horizon — including the words up, down, right, and left — are written for the world's mid-northern latitudes. Descriptions that also depend on longitude mainly Moon positions are for North America. Want to become a better astronomer? Learn your way around the constellations.
They're the key to locating everything fainter and deeper to hunt with binoculars or a telescope. This is an outdoor nature hobby.
Once you get a telescope, to put it to good use you'll need a detailed, large-scale sky atlas set of charts. The basic standard is the Pocket Sky Atlas in either the original or Jumbo Edition , which shows stars to magnitude 7. Next up is the larger and deeper Sky Atlas The next up, once you know your way around, are the even larger Interstellarum atlas stars to magnitude 9.
And be sure to read how to use sky charts with a telescope. Can a computerized telescope replace charts? Not for beginners, I don't think, and not on mounts and tripods that are less than top-quality mechanically, meaning heavy and expensive. And as Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer say in their Backyard Astronomer's Guide , "A full appreciation of the universe cannot come without developing the skills to find things in the sky and understanding how the sky works.
This knowledge comes only by spending time under the stars with star maps in hand. Audio sky tour. Out under the evening sky with your earbuds in place, listen to Kelly Beatty's monthly podcast tour of the heavens above.
It's free. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking, it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before. I was able to do some stargazing last night. Observed using mm with mm refractor at 71x. Good views of Jupiter and Galilean moons along with many cloud bands visible. No filters used and Jupiter still bright. The Galilean moons were in tight pairs on each side of Jupiter this evening.
Saturn lovely with rings and Titan easily visible. M2 fuzzy ball with some You can use this website to help you figure out the best time to see the ISS passing overhead. Satellites in low earth orbit like the ISS and Binar-1 move more than 7km per second. Venus is looking glorious in the western sky in the evenings.
Because of the way the orbits line up , it is backdropped by the centre of the Milky Way in Sagittarius right now, and in the first week of November its path will take it almost right through the middle, as seen from Earth. This is of course an observational effect, the black hole itself is 26, light years away, but you can use Venus as a reference point. Jupiter is still looking nice and bright, high in the evening skies. It reaches eastern quadrature on 15 November, which means at sunset on this date it will lie exactly along a line drawn north to south in the sky.
Seen from above, lines drawn from the Sun to Earth and from Earth to Jupiter will meet at a right angle. Another way of thinking about this is if you point one hand at the setting sun and the other at Jupiter, your arms will make a right angle. Aries is a medium-sized constellation and part of the Zodiac, meaning that it lies along the ecliptic which you will be able to trace out using the instructions above.
It is visible in the northern sky in the mid-evenings during November, and is recognised as the gently curving set of stars representing the ram and its horns. The brightest star in this constellation is Hamal, a giant star that has used up all the fuel in its core and is now in the process of fusing hydrogen in layers around the middle. The location of fusion away from the core of the star causes its outer layers to heat up and expand, and ultimately cool the star down a little, turning it a reddish colour.
The ram appears in many stories of mythology, perhaps the most well known being the bearer of the golden fleece which was made from its hide, serving as the basis for one of the trials of Jason and his crew of Argonauts.
This story is also recorded in the gigantic asterism of Argo Navis, these days broken into the constellations of Vela, Puppis and Carina — visible in the south east at the same time as Aries is up in the north. Always guaranteed to get a lame laugh, this planet gets its name from the primordial Greek God of the Sky. It should appear as a greenish-blue source through a medium-sized telescope. Uranus is technically the first planet ever discovered.
The other naked eye planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have been known since antiquity, while Uranus is recorded as being discovered on 13 March Its long orbit and great distance from us mean it requires many observations or powerful equipment to see the signs that this point of light in the sky is an entire world. No matter how, the result is that seasons on Uranus last for decades at a time. The local claim to fame is that observations performed at Perth Observatory helped confirm the discovery of the rings of Uranus.
The planet was predicted to pass in front of a distant star and block out the light received. Astronomers noticed that in addition to the expected drop in starlight from the planet being in the way, there were also dips in starlight observed just before and just after Uranus blocked the star: tell-tale signs of a ring system around the planet obstructing the starlight.
Images: Elliot and Nicholson. Uranus continues to play an intriguing role in models of solar system evolution. It seems like something that belongs in a movie: An asteroid is headed towards Earth — can we deflect it by flying a big heavy spaceship into it to push it off course and save the planet? Taking off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, it will speed towards the double asteroid Didymos.
To be clear, Didymos and Dimorphos are not on a collision course with Earth, we are safe for now. Asteroids can be tricky to study, and their widely varying composition makes it difficult to extrapolate data from one study to the next. Image: DART. Travelling to an altitude of km, this carries travellers well above the Karman line , the internationally agreed edge of space. You might have noticed that the New Shepard rocket looks a little different to the sleek rockets we have become used to.
The reason is in the landing of the rocket and the safety of the people on board. Landing rockets is a difficult and dangerous task, so if you can make sure there are no people around when it happens, all the better. The crew capsule at the top of the New Shepard is designed to detach and land separately under parachutes as the now uncrewed booster stage lands using its engine.
The two separate at an altitude of about km so they have plenty of time to drift apart. Hence why it has a wide base. The need to be aerodynamic going up and blunt coming down makes the top of the rocket look the way it does. Add in some internet culture and the rest is history. The Space Launch System launch vehicle for the Artemis 1 mission is finally fully assembled.
Look in the east-northeast at to find the twins stars of Gemini easing up into the sky. Castor leads the way, followed by his brother Pollux. Although they are considered twins in mythology, these two stars are not related, or close to one another, and Pollux is noticeably brighter. The mid-winter stars rise earlier each evening, as the Earth makes its appointed journey around the Sun.
This is the dominant star in the constellation Canis Minor, the Little Dog. The Andromeda Galaxy Find it by looking high in the east between 8 and 10 o'clock.
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