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2
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New Moon at 1:24 UT. Beginning of lunation 1025.
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3
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Mercury at greatest elongation, 24° east from the Sun (evening sky) at 16h UT. Mercury mag. -0.2, very, very low in the southwest.
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3
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Venus at greatest elongation, 47° east from the Sun (evening sky) at 19h UT. Venus mag. -4.3, low in the southwest.
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3
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Moon near Mercury at 23h UT (evening sky). Very low.
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4
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Moon very near Antares at 7h UT (evening sky).
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5
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Taurid (south) meteor shower peaks. May produce the occasional bright fireball.
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5
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Moon near Venus at 19h UT (evening sky).
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7
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Mars at opposition at 8h UT. Mag. -2.3. Visible all night long. This is the closest and brightest that Mars will appear till 2018. The Red Planet will dim very noticeably to mag. -1.7 by month's end.
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9
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First Quarter Moon at 1:57 UT.
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9
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Mercury 1.9° from Antares at 19h UT (evening sky). Mags. 0.0 and 0.0. Very low in the southwest.
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10
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Moon at perigee (closest to Earth) at 0h UT (distance 370,010 km; size 32.3').
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12
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Taurid (north) meteor shower peaks. May produce the occasional bright fireball.
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15
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Moon near Mars at 4h UT (evening sky). Mag. -2.1.
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16
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Full Moon at 0:57 UT. The full Moon of November is called the "Frosty Moon" or "Beaver Moon".
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16
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Moon near the Pleiades at 13h UT (midnight sky).
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17
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Leonid meteor shower peaks at 15h UT. Expect about 10 to 15 meteors per hour under ideal conditions. However, moonlight interferes with observations this year.
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20
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Moon near Pollux at 17h UT (morning sky).
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22
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Moon near Saturn at 5h UT (morning sky). Saturn mag. +0.2.
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23
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Moon at apogee (farthest from Earth) at 6h UT (distance 404,370 km; angular size 29.6').
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23
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Last Quarter Moon at 22:11 UT.
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28
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Moon very near Spica at 5h UT (morning sky).
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29
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Moon near Jupiter at 5h UT (30° from Sun, morning sky).
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All times Universal Time (UT). (USA Eastern Standard Time = UT - 5 hours)
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