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November

1 All Saints' Day; Samhain (ancient Druid holiday, ancestor of Halloween—pronounced like "savin"); through a telescope Venus may look like an exactly half lit Moon one of these next few days.
2 All Souls' Day.
3 Venus-Mars-Moon line tonight, with Moon far to right.
4 Election Day; Will Rogers Day (Oklahoma); Moon far above Venus tonight (with Mars to the right of Venus).
5 Guy Fawkes Day; Jupiter at east quadrature (in the due south about sunset).
6 Venus at greatest elongation from Sun in evening sky, 47.1 degrees—but Venus also farthest south in the heavens this day, so it will appear highest in the dusk sky next month.
7 FIRST QUARTER MOON, 4:43 P.M. EST; halfway point of autumn; Moon just above Jupiter tonight.
9 Mars at its farthest south in heavens—just three days after Venus was; Mars about 1/2 degree from Lagoon Nebula in telescopes tonight and tomorrow night.
11 Veterans Day; Admission Day (Washington); Martinmas; Moon hides Saturn around 7 P.M. EST as seen south of a line running from southern Texas to southern New Jersey and Cape Cod—within a few dozen miles of this line, viewers with telescopes see amazing "grazing occultation" (see text and Sky& Telescope for details).
12 Jupiter passes in front of star almost as bright as its four big moons around 8:30 P.M. to 8:45 P.M. EST (see text of accompanying article and Sky & Telescope magazine for details of how to see this with a telescope).
13 Star very near Jupiter's moon Callisto tonight (telescope needed).
14 FULL MOON, 9:12 A.M. EST—"Frosty Moon" or "Beaver Moon."
16 Start looking for Leonid meteors from the east this evening.
17 Peak of Leonid meteor shower may be this morning, and despite bright Moon, dozens (or more) meteors might be seen each hour—maybe even in bright moonlight if they are as bright as those in last year's Leonid shower.
19 Discovery Day (Puerto Rico).
21 LAST QUARTER MOON, 6:58 P.M. EST.
22 At 2 A.M. EST, Sun enters astrological sign Sagittarius—but is really still in constellation Libra until 10 P.M. EST; Sun leaves Libra, enters constellation Scorpius at 10 P.M. EST (will be in Scorpius for only 6 days).
26 St. Catherine's Day.
27 Thanksgiving Day; Pluto at superior conjunction—end of all 9 planets being in the sky at dusk.
28 Mercury at greatest eastern elongation—but a generally poor showing.
29 NEW MOON, 9:14 P.M. EST; Sun leaves Scorpius and enters Ophiuchus at 5 P.M. EST.

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