The astronomical events not to miss in November – Textual

This fall is loaded with reasons to look up at the night sky. But if we’ve already lost some of them, like the last superluna or the orionids, quiet, because much remains to be seen. Only in November the amount astronomical events since we will lift the head almost every day. the Rain of stars, alignments, conjunctions, another super (mega) moon, among others, are not mucus from turkey.

The largest moon of the last seventy years

Although it is not the first time that we hear announcements like this one, astronomers and lovers of astronomical observation are delighted with the airs of this fall. And is that last October 16, as we were able to enjoy a superluna. But this lunar perigee was not as large as the one that we will be able to enjoy the 14th November. In fact, we speak of what is to be the superluna largest since 1948. This is because the perigee of the Moon will be the closest to date.

The Moon, in its elliptical orbit reaches a point that is located more away from our little planet, and the height; and another in which is about the maximum, perigee. When the full moon coincides with the perigee of the superlunas because of its size and brightness are seen much more at other times. On this occasion, the distance and the brightness of the lunar perigee will allow us to enjoy as decades ago that didn’t do. In addition, a superluna record as this will not occur until 2036. So prepare your telescopes.

Rain of stars for all

If we thought that with the perseids of summer or the orionids in the past month we have had enough, we were wrong. The space is a place quite a bit of vacuum; and our Earth goes through constantly remains cosmic dust, rock and glass. Therefore, among the astronomical events of this November could not miss the rain of stars. But what? Thus the first are the taurids, which will start to be seen well in a couple of days and have its greatest manifestation on the 11th of November. This shower has its radiant (grosso modo, to the point where most meteors we see) in the constellation of Taurus. Although its maximum rate is humble (about 10 THZ), so that will have to be very careful.

a Few days later will have its maximum manifestation of the leonids, another rain whose manifestation is due to the remains left by the comet Tempel-Tuttle. This rain shows its peak in mid-October, with its peak, this year, dial 16. This can pose a slight problem since it will match a full moon with the leonids, so that will have to wait almost at dawn to be able to see them. However, the leonids are one of the astronomical events of November, more expected due to its modest but visible hourly rate of meteors (which reaches 20), as well as its beauty. To find your radiant, we will have to find the constellation Leo in the sky.

Alignment of planets and other beauties

But if what we have is eager to get the telescope, the “conjunctions” of planets (and the Moon), though modest, will be easily observable this November. Starting with today, when we can see the Moon and Saturn from the northern hemisphere, passing through the 5th of November when Mars aligned with the Moon, until you reach the 23rd of November, done a good planetary alignment will allow us to see (only if we have a clear sky and little light pollution) the alignment of Mercury with Jupiter. In addition to these alignments, during the astronomical events of November we will be able to see beautiful stars pass as Regulus, the “heart of Leo” or the bull’s eye, Aldebaran, in Taurus.

This fall, including November, we will be able to enjoy a great triangle formed by the stars: Vega, Deneb and Altair nothing more to get the Sun in the northern hemisphere. The constellations most representative of which we will enjoy are: Pegasus, Andromeda, Perseus, Cassiopeia, Cepheus and Cetus. Andromeda is the object farthest that we can observe without the aid of optical instrumentation, is a constellation especially easy to observe during the autumn. Is nothing more and nothing less than 2,5 million light years. With this we already have plans to spare to go out at night in search of spectacular images and for the whole November.