Don’t Miss: Total Lunar Eclipse and Leonid Meteor Shower - SciTechDaily

The Moon goes each red, positive Leonid meteors!

The Leonids volition conflict against moonlight this year, but anyone with a presumption of the Moon successful the a.m. connected November 8 tin bask a lunar eclipse.

• November 8 – Full moon
• November 8 – Total lunar eclipse successful the hours earlier sunrise
• November 11 – The Moon appears straight betwixt Mars and agleam blue-white prima Elnath successful the westbound earlier sunrise
• November 20 – In the hr earlier sunrise, find the crescent Moon supra agleam prima Spica successful the southeast
• November 18 – Look consecutive overhead for Leonid meteors aft midnight. The Moon is astir 35% full, and volition diminish the fainter meteors.
• November 23 – New moon
• November 28 – The crescent Moon hangs beneath Saturn successful the southwest aft sunset
• All month – The Leonid meteor ablution is progressive passim November, and peaks betwixt midnight and dawn connected the 18th.

What’s Up for November? A lunar eclipse, the satellite and planets, and the Leonid meteors.

A full lunar eclipse is connected the way, to supply a small celestial magic, aboriginal connected the greeting of November 8th. The eclipse volition beryllium disposable to viewers successful North America, the Pacific region, Australia, and Eastern Asia – anyplace the Moon is supra the skyline portion the eclipse is happening.

The Moon moves close to left, passing done the penumbra and umbra, leaving successful its aftermath an eclipse diagram with the times astatine assorted stages of the eclipse. The penumbra is the portion of the Earth’s shadiness wherever the Sun is lone partially covered by the Earth. The umbra is wherever the Sun is wholly hidden. The satellite Uranus is astir 3 degrees (six Moon widths) northbound of the Moon during totality. It’s usually a spot excessively dim to spot with the bare eye, but binoculars and tiny telescopes uncover it arsenic a small, mint-green dot. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio

For observers successful the Eastern clip portion of the U.S. and Canada, the partial eclipse begins a small aft 4 a.m. It reaches afloat eclipse astatine astir 5:15 a.m. section time, and the Moon past sets portion inactive successful eclipse for you. For observers connected the West Coast of North America, that translates to the partial eclipse opening conscionable aft 1 a.m., and reaching afloat eclipse by astir 2:15 a.m. You’ll beryllium capable to spot the full eclipse unfold earlier sunrise, upwind permitting, arsenic the Moon exits the acheronian portion of Earth’s shadiness (called the umbra) a fewer minutes earlier 5 a.m.

During a lunar eclipse, you’ll apt announcement that you tin spot a batch much faint stars, arsenic the usually superb afloat satellite dims to a dull red.

During a lunar eclipse, you’ll apt announcement that you tin spot a batch much faint stars, arsenic the usually superb afloat satellite dims to a dull red. And during this eclipse, viewers with binoculars tin spy an other dainty – the crystal elephantine satellite Uranus volition beryllium disposable conscionable a finger’s width distant from the eclipsed Moon.

Check the video representation beneath to find retired if the eclipse is disposable from your area, and find tons much eclipse info from NASA astatine moon.nasa.gov.

This animated representation shows wherever the November 8, 2022, lunar eclipse is visible. Contours people the borderline of the visibility portion astatine eclipse interaction times. The representation is centered connected 168°57’W, the sublunar longitude astatine mid-eclipse. On November 8, 2022, the Moon enters the Earth’s shadow, creating a full lunar eclipse, the archetypal since May. This animation shows the portion of the Earth wherever this eclipse is visible. This portion shifts to the westbound during the eclipse. Observers adjacent the borderline of the visibility portion whitethorn spot lone portion of the eclipse due to the fact that for them, the Moon sets (on the eastbound oregon right-hand edge) oregon rises (on the occidental oregon left-hand edge) portion the eclipse is happening. Contour lines people the borderline of the visibility portion astatine the interaction times. These are the times erstwhile the Moon enters oregon leaves the umbra (the portion of the Earth’s shadiness wherever the Sun is wholly hidden) and penumbra (the portion wherever the Sun is lone partially blocked). For observers located connected a contour line, the interaction occurs astatine moonrise (west) oregon moonset (east). Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio

In the pre-dawn hours of November 11th, you’ll find the Moon straight betwixt Mars and the agleam bluish-white prima Elnath. Elnath is the 2nd brightest prima successful the constellation Taurus, aft reddish Aldebaran, and it forms the bluish horn of the bull. You’ll find that Elnath is astir the aforesaid brightness arsenic the prima Bellatrix successful adjacent Orion, wherever it forms 1 of the hunter’s shoulders.

On November 20th, successful the hr earlier sunrise, look toward the southeast to find a slim, crescent Moon hanging close supra the agleam bluish prima Spica. It’s a elephantine star, 10 times the wide of our Sun, and 12,000 times much luminous. Fortunately for us, it’s located 260 light-years distant from Earth.

And successful the evening sky, connected November 28th, a beauteous crescent Moon hangs beneath Saturn successful the southbound aft sunset.

The Leonid meteor ablution is progressive passim November. It peaks aft midnight connected the 18th, with thing similar 15 to 20 meteors per hr nether clear, acheronian skies.

On the highest nighttime for the Leonids this year, the Moon volition beryllium astir 35% full, meaning it volition interfere with your quality to spot the fainter meteors.

The shower’s sanction comes from the constellation Leo, the lion, from which its meteors look to radiate. The meteors are dusty bits of debris near down by comet Tempel-Tuttle arsenic it orbits the Sun. This comet was really discovered twice, independently.

On the highest nighttime for the Leonids this year, the Moon volition beryllium astir 35% full, meaning it volition interfere with your quality to spot the fainter meteors. However, Leonid meteors are often bright, with trails (also called trains) that persist for a mates of seconds aft they streak crossed the sky.

And portion the Moon volition beryllium rising successful the eastbound with Leo astir midnight section time, it’s really amended to presumption the entity distant from the meteors’ evident constituent of origin, by lying backmost and looking consecutive upward, arsenic immoderate meteor trails you spot volition look longer and much spectacular.

Here are the phases of the Moon for November.

Stay up to day with each of NASA’s missions to research the star strategy and beyond astatine nasa.gov. I’m Preston Dyches from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and that’s What’s Up for this month.