Keep an eye on the night sky for some celestial events worth looking up for.
What's happening in the skies over North Texas this month? November holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky. Check out the list below.November is known for its meteor showers. The Leonid meteor shower will run from November 6th through the 30th and peak around November 17th and 18th. Start looking for its radiant point in the constellation Leo shortly before midnight local time. Under ideal conditions, you could see up to 10 meteors an hour.
The International Space Station will make flybys across the North Texas sky this month. The ISS appears as a fast-moving star across the night sky.The ISS rotates around the Earth at a speed of 17,500 mph. The ISS rotates about its center of mass at a rate of about four degrees per minute so that it will complete a full rotation once per orbit. This allows it to keep its belly towards the Earth. One revolution around the planet takes about 90 minutes .
Look for the planet in the constellation Aries. It will shine with a magnitude of -2.9, making it the brightest starlike object after “the morning star” Venus.If you're driving in the morning, a bright object will appear in the eastern sky before sunrise. Guess what…it is Venus.The moon will have a close conjunction with Venus on the morning of November 9th. It will remain a pre-dawn fixture in the sky through the rest of the year.
At their most distant, when they lie on opposite sides of the Sun from one another, they are just over a billion miles apart, or 11 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun.November will feature a full moon. The Beaver Moon will make for a delight at the end of the month.The Beaver Moon gets its name from the time of the year when beavers begin to hide in their lodges, having stored enough food for the winter.
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