11/01/2021 – Ephemeris – Previewing November skies

This is Ephemeris for Monday, November 1st. The Sun will rise at 8:21. It’ll be up for 10 hours and 9 minutes, setting at 6:31. The Moon, 3 days before new, will rise at 5:18 tomorrow morning.

Let’s look ahead at the skies for the month of November. The Sun is still moving south rapidly at the beginning of the month, but will slow down toward the end. Daylight hours in the Interlochen/Traverse City area and will drop from 10 hours and 9 minutes today to 9 hours 4 minutes on the 30th. The altitude, or angle, of the Sun above the southern horizon at local noon will be at 30 degrees tomorrow and will descend to 23 and a half degrees on the 30th. The altitude of the Sun in the Straits area will be a degree lower. Local noon, this month, is about 12:30 p.m. There will be an almost total eclipse of the Moon on the morning of Friday the 19th. The eclipse will start at 2:18 am. Mid-eclipse with a tiny sliver of the Moon in sunlight will be at 4:05 am. It all ends at 5:47 am.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EDT, UT – 4 hours). They may be different for your location.

Addendum

November Evening Star Chart

Star Chart for November evenings, 2021 (9 p.m. EST November 15, 2019). Click on image to enlarge. Click on image to enlarge. Created using my LookingUp program.

November Morning Star Chart

Star Chart for November mornings, 2021 (6 a.m. EST November 15, 2020). Click on image to enlarge. Created using my LookingUp program.

For a list of constellation names to go with the abbreviations, click here.

• Pointer stars at the front of the bowl of the Big Dipper point to Polaris, the North Star.
• Follow the arc of the handle of the Big Dipper to the star Arcturus
• The Summer Triangle is in red.
• TauR on the evening star chart can be used as the radiant for the North and South Taurid meteor showers.
• LeoR on the morning star chart is the radiant of the Leonid meteor shower, which peaks between the 17th.

Twilight Limits, Nautical and Astronomical

			EDT
	Morning	Twilight	Evening	Twilight	Dark	Night	Moon
Date	Astro.	Nautical	Nautical	Astro.	Start	End	Illum.
2021-11-01	6h47m	7h21m	19h39m	20h13m	20h13m	4h03m	0.1
2021-11-02	6h48m	7h22m	19h38m	20h12m	20h12m	5h18m	0.04
2021-11-03	6h49m	7h23m	19h36m	20h10m	20h10m	6h36m	0.01
2021-11-04	6h51m	7h25m	19h35m	20h09m	20h09m	6h51m	0
2021-11-05	6h52m	7h26m	19h34m	20h08m	20h08m	6h52m	0.03
2021-11-06	6h53m	7h27m	19h33m	20h07m	20h07m	6h53m	0.08
2021-11-07	5h54m	6h28m	18h32m	19h06m	19h35m	5h54m	0.15
2021-11-08	5h55m	6h30m	18h31m	19h05m	20h37m	5h55m	0.25
2021-11-09	5h57m	6h31m	18h30m	19h04m	21h48m	5h57m	0.36
2021-11-10	5h58m	6h32m	18h29m	19h03m	23h02m	5h58m	0.47
2021-11-11	5h59m	6h33m	18h28m	19h02m	–	5h59m	0.57
2021-11-12	6h00m	6h34m	18h27m	19h01m	0h16m	6h00m	0.68
2021-11-13	6h01m	6h36m	18h26m	19h00m	1h27m	6h01m	0.77
2021-11-14	6h02m	6h37m	18h25m	18h59m	2h35m	6h02m	0.85
2021-11-15	6h03m	6h38m	18h24m	18h59m	3h41m	6h03m	0.91
2021-11-16	6h05m	6h39m	18h23m	18h58m	4h45m	6h05m	0.96
2021-11-17	6h06m	6h40m	18h23m	18h57m	5h50m	6h06m	0.99
2021-11-18	6h07m	6h41m	18h22m	18h56m	–	–	1
2021-11-19	6h08m	6h43m	18h21m	18h56m	–	–	0.99
2021-11-20	6h09m	6h44m	18h20m	18h55m	–	–	0.97
2021-11-21	6h10m	6h45m	18h20m	18h54m	–	–	0.93
2021-11-22	6h11m	6h46m	18h19m	18h54m	18h54m	19h22m	0.87
2021-11-23	6h12m	6h47m	18h19m	18h53m	18h53m	20h17m	0.81
2021-11-24	6h13m	6h48m	18h18m	18h53m	18h53m	21h19m	0.72
2021-11-25	6h14m	6h49m	18h18m	18h52m	18h52m	22h24m	0.63
2021-11-26	6h15m	6h50m	18h17m	18h52m	18h52m	23h33m	0.53
2021-11-27	6h16m	6h51m	18h17m	18h52m	18h52m	–	0.43
2021-11-28	6h17m	6h52m	18h16m	18h51m	18h51m	0h43m	0.33
2021-11-29	6h18m	6h54m	18h16m	18h51m	18h51m	1h54m	0.23
2021-11-30	6h19m	6h55m	18h16m	18h51m	18h51m	3h07m	0.14

Twilight calendar was generated using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts).

See my blog post: Twilight Zone for the definitions of the different periods of twilight here: https://bobmoler.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/.

NASA Calendar of Planetary Events

   Date      Time    Event
Nov  1  Mo            Venus: 47° E
     1  Mo   8:17 pm  Mercury-Spica: 4.1° N
     4  Th   4:15 pm  New Moon
     4  Th   7:13 pm  Uranus Opposition
     5  Fr   5:23 pm  Moon Perigee: 358800 km
     5  Fr  10:38 pm  Moon Descending Node
     8  Mo  12:21 am  Moon-Venus: 1.1° S
     8  Mo  11:27 am  Moon South Dec.: 26.3° S
    10  We   9:27 am  Moon-Saturn: 4.2° N
    11  Th   7:46 am  First Quarter
    11  Th  12:12 pm  Moon-Jupiter: 4.5° N
    12  Fr   6:16 am  North Taurid Shower: ZHR = 15
    17  We  12:33 pm  Leonid Shower: ZHR = 15
    19  Fr   3:58 am  Full Moon
    19  Fr   4:04 am  Partial Lunar Eclipse
    19  Fr  12:59 pm  Moon Ascending Node
    20  Sa   9:14 pm  Moon Apogee: 406300 km
    22  Mo   5:43 pm  Moon North Dec.: 26.3° N
    23  Tu  10:22 pm  Moon-Pollux: 2.8° N
    24  We  11:32 pm  Moon-Beehive: 3.6° S
    27  Sa   7:28 am  Last Quarter
    28  Su  11:35 pm  Mercury Superior Solar Conj.

All event times for November 1-6 are given for UTC-4 Eastern Daylight Saving Time. Dates after that times are given for UTC-5 Eastern Standard Time.

Sky Events Calendar by Fred Espenak and Sumit Dutta (NASA’s GSFC),
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SKYCAL/SKYCAL.html.

If you go to the above site you can print out a list like the above for the entire year or calendar pages for your time zone.

Sun and Moon Rising and Setting Events

LU             Ephemeris of Sky Events for Interlochen/TC
November, 2021    Local time zone: EDT
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| DATE |  SUN     SUN  DAYLIGHT|   TWILIGHT*    |MOON  RISE OR    ILLUM |
|      |  RISE    SET    HOURS |  END    START  |PHASE SET** TIME FRACTN|
+=======================================================================+
|Mon  1| 08:21a  06:31p  10:09 | 07:36p  07:16a |      Rise 05:18a   11%|
|Tue  2| 08:22a  06:29p  10:07 | 07:34p  07:17a |      Rise 06:35a    5%|
|Wed  3| 08:23a  06:28p  10:04 | 07:33p  07:18a |      Rise 07:56a    1%|
|Thu  4| 08:25a  06:26p  10:01 | 07:32p  07:19a |New   Set  06:31p    0%|
|Fri  5| 08:26a  06:25p  09:59 | 07:31p  07:21a |      Set  07:04p    2%|
|Sat  6| 08:27a  06:24p  09:56 | 07:30p  07:22a |      Set  07:44p    7%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
| EST  |      Time Change      |                |                       |
|Sun  7| 07:29a  05:23p  09:53 | 06:28p  06:23a |      Set  07:35p   14%|
|Mon  8| 07:30a  05:21p  09:51 | 06:27p  06:24a |      Set  08:37p   23%|
|Tue  9| 07:32a  05:20p  09:48 | 06:26p  06:25a |      Set  09:48p   33%|
|Wed 10| 07:33a  05:19p  09:46 | 06:25p  06:27a |      Set  11:02p   44%|
|Thu 11| 07:34a  05:18p  09:43 | 06:24p  06:28a |F Qtr Set  12:16a   55%|
|Fri 12| 07:36a  05:17p  09:41 | 06:24p  06:29a |      Set  01:27a   65%|
|Sat 13| 07:37a  05:16p  09:38 | 06:23p  06:30a |      Set  02:35a   75%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 14| 07:38a  05:15p  09:36 | 06:22p  06:31a |      Set  03:40a   83%|
|Mon 15| 07:40a  05:14p  09:34 | 06:21p  06:33a |      Set  04:45a   90%|
|Tue 16| 07:41a  05:13p  09:31 | 06:20p  06:34a |      Set  05:49a   95%|
|Wed 17| 07:42a  05:12p  09:29 | 06:19p  06:35a |      Set  06:54a   98%|
|Thu 18| 07:44a  05:11p  09:27 | 06:19p  06:36a |      Set  07:58a  100%|
|Fri 19| 07:45a  05:10p  09:25 | 06:18p  06:37a |Full  Rise 05:23p  100%|
|Sat 20| 07:46a  05:09p  09:23 | 06:17p  06:38a |      Rise 05:56p   98%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 21| 07:48a  05:09p  09:21 | 06:17p  06:40a |      Rise 06:35p   94%|
|Mon 22| 07:49a  05:08p  09:19 | 06:16p  06:41a |      Rise 07:22p   89%|
|Tue 23| 07:50a  05:07p  09:17 | 06:15p  06:42a |      Rise 08:17p   82%|
|Wed 24| 07:51a  05:07p  09:15 | 06:15p  06:43a |      Rise 09:19p   74%|
|Thu 25| 07:53a  05:06p  09:13 | 06:15p  06:44a |      Rise 10:24p   65%|
|Fri 26| 07:54a  05:05p  09:11 | 06:14p  06:45a |      Rise 11:33p   55%|
|Sat 27| 07:55a  05:05p  09:09 | 06:14p  06:46a |L Qtr Rise 12:42a   45%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 28| 07:56a  05:04p  09:08 | 06:13p  06:47a |      Rise 01:54a   35%|
|Mon 29| 07:57a  05:04p  09:06 | 06:13p  06:48a |      Rise 03:07a   25%|
|Tue 30| 07:59a  05:03p  09:04 | 06:13p  06:49a |      Rise 04:24a   15%|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
* Nautical Twilight
** Moonrise or moonset, whichever occurs between sunrise and sunset

Generated using my LookingUp for DOS program.

Preview of the November 19, 2021 partial lunar eclipse at maximum at 4:05 am

A Stellarium simulation of what the partial lunar eclipse of the 19th might look like at its peak at 4:05 am EST.