Prince George Astronomical Society
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Here's a picture of another very bright comet which you might be able to see it with a pair of binocular, but you’ll have to act soon to see it in the early dawn sky before it gets lost in the Sun’s glare. The comet will be visible from early November into mid December. Picture here shows Comet C/2020 S3 (Erasmus) on 2020-11-16.236 by our member Malhar R. Kendurkar. He took these pictures of comet during his ongoing Global Supernova Sky Survey. ... Information about the images: Orange image is a Mid-Infrared image of a comet to see the nucleus and after reducing data, the core of the comet is clearly visible in the negative image. The third image shows the tails of the comet, i.e Ion Tail and Dust Tail and some jets coming out of it's nucleus. This comet was discovered on the night of September 17th, 2020 by astronomer Nicolas Erasmus during the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) sky survey. If you want to read more about this comet or have questions about this comet feel free to contact us.! https://www.universetoday.com//enter-comet-s3-erasmus-a-b/

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 This evening the bright, almost-full Moon shines between Aldebaran below it and the Pleiades above it. Off to their left, bright Capella looks on.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 Bright Jupiter and Saturn are almost as close together now (2.6 apart) as modest, 3rd-magnitude Alpha and Beta Capricorni above them (2.3 apart); see below. Wait for full dark to catch the faint stars.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26 Does the Sun already seem to be setting about as early as it ever will? You're right! We're still nearly a month from the winter solstice on December 21st but the Sun sets its earliest around December 7th if you live near latitude 40 north. And already the Sun sets within only two minutes of that time. A surprising result of this: The Sun actually sets a trace earlier this weekend than on Christmas even though Christmas is around solstice time!... This offset from the solstice date is balanced out by the opposite happening at sunrise:

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Mars shines about 5 above the waxing gibbous Moon high in the southeast in early evening, as shown above. These are currently the two closest large celestial bodies; they're 1.3 light-seconds and 5 light-minutes away. Next is the Sun at 8.3 light-minutes. Mercury and Venus are both currently on the far side of the Sun.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Mars shines about a fist-width to the upper left of the waxing gibbous Moon this evening, as shown below. Mars has lost two thirds of the brightness it displayed around opposition in early October. But at magnitude 1.4 it's still as bright as Sirius, which will be up and shining low in the southeast after midnight. At that time, Mars will be very high in the southwest.... Around 8 p.m. the Great Square of Pegasus stands level very high toward the south (straight overhead if you're as far south as Miami). Its right (western) edge points very far down toward Fomalhaut. Its eastern edge points less directly toward Beta Ceti, less far down. Now descending farther: If you have a very good view down to the south horizon, and if you're not much farther north than latitude 40 (roughly Denver, New York, or Madrid), picture an equilateral triangle with Fomalhaut and Beta Ceti as its top two corners. Near where the third corner would be (a bit to the right of that point) is Alpha Phoenicis, or Ankaa, in the constellation Phoenix. It's magnitude 2.4, not very bright but the brightest thing in its area. It has a yellow-orange tint; binoculars help confirm this.