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The Moon is ~6° from Regulus on the 8th November, 2012

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Last Quarter Moon at 00:35.7 UT, 7th November, 2012.



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Mercury is stationary on the 7th November, 2012.

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The Moon is ~6°' from Praesepe on the 6th November, 2012



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Eyes on the Sky: Nov 5 thru Nov 11

William Herschel is an important figure in astronomy. Learn what he did, and some objects you can find and observe that he observed back in the lat 1700's that help change the way we understand our solar system and galaxy. 



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The moon will wane from last quarter to a very thin crescent this week. It will pass Venus and Spica, Virgo's brightest star, Sunday morning before it's lost in the sun's glare and the old moon becomes a new moon, starting the lunar cycle anew next week.
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Starting Monday and continuing for the next two weeks, two prominent meteor showers will be lighting up the night sky with flashes of fireballs and shooting stars.
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Hello winter constellations, farewell stars of summer

Over in the western sky, a few summer constellations are hanging in there. Cygnus the Swan, Lyra the Harp, Aquila the Eagle, Delphinus the Dolphin and a few others are slowly migrating to the west a little more each night, making their slow exit from our celestial stage.
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The night sky in November 2012

The large constellation of Taurus the Bull, now almost overhead, contains several splendid objects. The Pleiades star cluster, the closely-packed Seven Sisters - that the ancients viewed as a ring of dancing goddesses - is famous in almost every culture on Earth. It is mentioned in Homer, the Bible, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and is praised in a poem by Tennyson. It even appears in a cave painting at Lascaux, apparently done about 17,000 years ago.
This has led to claims of some special connection between the Pleiades and Earth (although the Pleiades are a full 420 light-years away), that aliens from some planet in the cluster long ago visited and colonised Earth. This is alleged in Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods, and forms the plot of the recent horrific SF film Prometheus.
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Ed ~  "aliens from some planet", What? 



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Jupiter is 0.8° from the Moon on the 2nd November, 2012.


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