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Oct 2024
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Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan.

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  • Nov 1 - New Moon!
  • Nov 3 - Mercury 2° North of Moon, Mercury is basically right of the Moon just after Sunset.
  • Nov 4 - Venus 3° North of Moon
  • Nov 5th - early morning -S. Taurid Meteors Peak - The Halloween Fireballs!
  • Nov 9 - First Quarter Moon
  • Nov 11 - Saturn as close as 0.09° n of the Moon - NZ Occultation
  • Nov. 12 - Neptune as close as 0.6° south of the Moon, Occultation for some in NA and western Hemisphere
  • Nov 15 - Full Moon
  • Nov 16 - Moon as close as 4° South of Moon while in M45, Pleiades
  • Nov 16 - Mercury at Greatest Elongation 23° East – Evening Sky SW
  • Nov 17 - Uranus at Opposition
    • Leonid Meteors Peak and Jupiter 6° from the Moon
  • Nov 20 - Mars 2° S of Moon
  • Nov 23rd - Last Quarter

 

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