Planet Scenes November 2024
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November 30: Venus With Venus blazing brilliantly in a clear sky, I decided it was appropriate to find a more scenic backdrop for this portrait of our brightest planet on the last evening of November. |
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November 29: Jupiter & Uranus After returning from Thanksgiving dinner with my family in Richmond, I took advantage of the clear skies to get a shot of Jupiter about a week before its opposition on the 7th of December. Uranus is also visible on the right side of the image just on the Taurus side of the Taurus / Aries border. |
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November 16: Venus & Mercury The first clear evening after I received my latest lens, a Nikon 100 mm f/2.8 Series E, I had to go out and see what it could do on the evening scene that features Venus in Sagittarius and Mercury still hugging the horizon. |
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November 13: Lunar Halo & Jupiter The evening saw high clouds encroaching in advance of a weather front moving through, so as a result we were treated to a very prominent lunar halo. The bright moonlight and high clouds also made for a dramatic scene as the winter constellations rose in the east, headlined by brilliant Jupiter. |
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November 12: Venus & Mercury Venus and Mercury are visible in the evening sky, although not close together; Venus is now riding high as the ecliptic angle with the horizon is finally becoming favorable, but Mercury is still nailed to the horizon so our picture has to be taken in bright twilight. |
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November 9: Mars and Jupiter A beautifully clear and mild morning greeted us this Saturday, November 9th, inviting us to admire the winter constellations adorned with the added brilliance of two bright planets this season. |
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November 8: Planets and the Non-Blaze Star Venus gleams this evening almost exactly on the border between Ophiuchus and Sagittarius, while Saturn shines in central Aquarius. Meanwhile, we still await the eruption of T Coronae Borealis, the famous Blaze Star, and hope that it won't happen in the next few months so that we can easily view it in a dark sky. |
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November 5: Moon & Venus Now the Moon has moved to the left of Venus and despite their separation they make a nice pairing because they were about the same elevation at the beginning of the evening. Here we see them sinking toward the horizon in an animation. |
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November 3: Moon, Venus, and Mercury Even though Mercury is very low in the west and not yet close to its greatest elongation for this apparition, the perfectly clear skies allowed us to see him as well as Antares near the razor thin crescent Moon. While these three objects were hugging the horizon, Venus gleamed far above them in bright twilight. |
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