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Viewing Highlights

Evening Skies:

Mars is very low in NW skies setting about an hour after sunset.
Mercury is above Mars also down in the Sun’s glare.

Mercury and Mars are 1°apart on 13 November

Saturn is high in the NE, the rings are almost edge on, but becoming more obvious over the next few years until they reach maximum tilt again in 2032.

Uranus, high near Pleiades, binocular viewing.

Morning Skies:
Jupiter (and its 4 Galilean moons) is always beautiful to look at, and can be seen for about 4 hours from about 2am till sunrise

Comets:

C/2023 R2 Swann – currently in Aquarius, fading, about Mag 5.6, high in evening skies, binoculars

C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) – Magnitude 4, near horizon, so difficult.

Leonid Meteor shower will be quite poor this year, despite the absence of the moon L

November Moon Phases

Full moon – November 5  (perigee full moon)

Perigee – November 6

Last Quarter – November 12 – Good for stargazing

Apogee New Moon – November 20 – ideal for stargazing.

First Quarter – November 28

For astrophotographers with tripod mounted binoc or telescope

Capture Lunar X on November 27

and finally TCoronaBorealis still hasn’t gone nova, but not visible in Sthn Hemisphere

December 2026 Highlights

Perigee Full Moon – December 5

Jupiter close to moon on December 7

Geminid Meteor Shower – December 13-14 – best at 3am to 5am

Solstice – December 22

Saturn close to moon on December 27

January  2026 Highlights

Earth at perihelion January 4

Moon and Regulus very close on morning of January 7

Jupiter at opposition, its biggest and brightest January 10

Occultation of Antares around 4:30am on morning  of January 15 

Astrophotography Challenge

1. Take photos of the moon at apogee and at perigee using the same camera settings to measure the difference in the moon’s apparent size when it is at its closest and furthest from earth

2. Capture the Lunar X

Ian’s Tangent

Comet Atlas is being misrepresented by ‘conspiracy theorists’ on social media who claim, without a shred of evidence, that Comet Atlas is an “Interstellar Spacecraft reversing its thrust”

There is a long history of comets inducing panic and fear in humans. Sad.

Next Episode:

Our next episode, coming as soon as I finish the edit … features Dylan Grigg, a fabulous PhD from Perth in Western Australia.

Dylan has been doing amazing work that impacts on the effectiveness of every radio telescope on the planet.

He has revealed the presence of unintended radio frequencies leaking from the tens of thousands of low earth orbit satellites above us , and these leaking frequencies are threatening to drown out the very faintest of frequencies that tell us what was happening at the very dawn of time.

This is important work, and it was great to speak with Dylan.

You’ll enjoy his stories!

See ya soon