Merkur reaches the upper conjunction on November 8th. It wanders behind the sun from an earth's view and remains invisible even afterwards.
Venus was in upper conjunction on October 22. The third smallest planet in our solar system is moving away from the Sun to the east, but will not reach a sufficient angular distance for evening visibility until the end of November.
Mars is approaching with giant steps of his opposition on December 8: he wanders through the bull and will be released soon after the dawn at the northeastern horizon, so it can be seen almost all night, especially at the end of the month. Its apparent brightness rises from –1.2 to -1.9 to the last month. Its characteristic red color with the naked eye is easily visible. It comes from iron oxide compounds on its dusty surface. This is already shown in small telescopes - provided calm air - sprinkled with dark spots, the albedo structures. They do not represent geological bumps, but are areas of lower reflection assets (albedo), in which the red Mars dust releases the view of darker layers of rock. The bright polar caps consisting of water and carbon dioxide ice should also be recognizable. This year we get a good view of both Mars hemispheres, because the day-and-night-like, the northern beginning of spring on Mars, falls on December 26th. At the end of the long southern summer, the southern pole cap should be quite small, but the northern could still be covered by an ice fog, the pole hood in November. The Mars disc grows from November 1st to 30th to 17.2 arc second. These more modest values compared to the previous Marsial facilities are made up for by the culmination height of 65 degrees - finally you can see the red planet up again! The moon passes Mars from November 10th to 11th north.
Jupiter will come to a standstill in the constellation Pisces on November 24, thus ending its opposition loop. We find him, -2,7 likes bright, after the end of dusk half-high in the southeast. It becomes the object of the first half of the night: on the first of the month, the planet culminates at 21:36 CET and sets at 03:31 the following morning; by the last of the month, these times shift to 19:40 or 01:37; its culmination altitude is around 38 degrees. The Jupiter disk, measured over the equator and measuring 46 arcseconds, offers the opportunity for extensive telescopic observations – especially on November 2nd and 10th, you should make a note: then two moons and their shadows will also appear in front of the planet. On the 2nd of the month, Ganymede, Europa and Europa's shadows can be seen in front of Jupiter from 23:32, and the shadows of both moons can be seen from 01:22 the following morning, when the moons have already left the planetary disk. On 10. In November, Ganymede and Europa will pass in front of Jupiter from 01:14, and Europa's shadow will join them from 02:08. The bright moons can only be distinguished from the Jupiter disk under good atmospheric conditions, technically called "seeing", and high magnification; the shadows, on the other hand, are striking: they look like pitch-black, punched holes in the planet. Other Jupitermonde events are given in the table. The waxing moon is three degrees south on the evening of November 4th.
Saturn is a planet of the evening sky and stands in the south after the dawn ends. Its culmination height is almost 24 degrees, its apparent brightness drops slightly from 0.7 to 0.8 Mag. It offers itself as an observation in the early evening. On November 1st, the ring planet goes under at 11:42 p.m. CET, on the last month at 9:55 p.m.; An hour earlier, he sinks into the horizon -related layers. In the telescope, Saturn shows 16.5 archery seconds. Its ring system measures 38 sheet seconds and is open to 15 degrees. The moon visits Saturn twice this month: from the 1st to the 2nd of the month and again from 28th to the 29th, it wanders past the planet south.
Uranus is in opposition on November 9th in the constellation of Aries. He can be seen there with 5.7 as a weak asterisks with the naked eye - although not in the days around his opposition, in which he gets a visit from the moon. On November 8, Uranus is even covered by the full moon. Unfortunately, this event in Europe is entirely unobserved, which is all the more painful when a total lunar eclipse takes place at the time of covering: In Japan, for example, the planet will be seen behind the fully darkened earth -drabant - on the pictures of the greenish uranium next to the red, We can look forward to darkened moon! We comfort ourselves with the view of our uranium covering here on land, then of course with a normal, increasing moon, next December and the opportunity to look at the planet with the telescope: it shows up in high enlargement as 3.8 arc second Pale green slices. Under good conditions, two to four moons are visible in larger amateur remuneration: Titania and Oberon are the simpler two, Ariel (14.3 Mag) and above all Umbriel (14.9 Mag) with 13.9 and 14.1 a challenge. With a culmination height of more than 56 degrees, the chances of good Seing are given.
Neptune declines through the Aquarius. The 7.7 Mag Hellen planet can be found in the neighboring fish with the help of the radiant jupiter and the 4.2 Mag Hellen Star Phi Aquarii: It is quite close to the center of the liability line between the objects. Its low speed in front of the star background and Jupiter Standstill at the end of November ensure this excess aid for the entire month. Neptune appears to 2.3 sheet seconds in the telescope. It goes under in the middle of the month around 2:00 a.m. CET.
