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November 30 Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2022 November 30

The Light, the Dark, and the Dusty

Image Credit & Copyright: Anthony Quintile

Explanation: This colorful skyscape spans about four full moons across nebula rich starfields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy in the royal northern constellation Cepheus. Near the edge of the region’s massive molecular cloud some 2,400 light-years away, bright reddish emission region Sharpless (Sh) 155 is at the center of the frame, also known as the Cave Nebula. About 10 light-years across the cosmic cave’s bright walls of gas are ionized by ultraviolet light from the hot young stars around it. Dusty reflection nebulae, like vdB 155 to the right, and dense obscuring clouds of dust also abound on the interstellar canvas. Astronomical explorations have revealed other dramatic signs of star formation, including the bright reddish fleck of Herbig-Haro (HH) 168. Below and right of center, the Herbig-Haro object emission is generated by energetic jets from a newborn star.

30 November 2022 Southern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions 

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link  

Currentplanetarypositions.com 

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link 

 For Your Local Time and Date  

Southeastern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America 

30 November 2022
03:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:08 Sagittarius 23
Moon:08 Pisces 35
Mercury:20 Sagittarius 29
Venus:18 Sagittarius 02
Mars:19 Gemini 01 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 53
Saturn:19 Aquarius 50
Uranus:16 Taurus 03 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 46

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 09
Mean Lunar Node:11 Taurus 52 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 38

Chiron:12 Aries 10 Rx
Ceres:24 Virgo 26
Pallas:26 Cancer 33 Rx
Juno:13 Pisces 22
Vesta:02 Pisces 52

Eris:24 Aries 04 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:2
Water:7
Cardinal:5
Fixed:4
Mutable:10

Southern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa 

30 November 2022
10:00 am GMT 12:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:08 Sagittarius 10
Moon:05 Pisces 41
Mercury:20 Sagittarius 10
Venus:17 Sagittarius 46
Mars:19 Gemini 06 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 52
Saturn:19 Aquarius 49
Uranus:16 Taurus 04 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 46

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 09 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:11 Taurus 53 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 37

Chiron:12 Aries 11 Rx
Ceres:24 Virgo 22
Pallas:26 Cancer 33 Rx
Juno:13 Pisces 19
Vesta:02 Pisces 48

Eris:24 Aries 05 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:2
Water:7
Cardinal:5
Fixed:4
Mutable:10

Southwestern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

30 November 2022
01:00 am GMT 12:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:07 Sagittarius 47
Moon:00 Pisces 26
Mercury:19 Sagittarius 35
Venus:17 Sagittarius 18
Mars:19 Gemini 14 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 52
Saturn:19 Aquarius 47
Uranus:16 Taurus 05 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 46

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 10 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:11 Taurus 54 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 34

Chiron:12 Aries 11 Rx
Ceres:24 Virgo 14
Pallas:26 Cancer 33
Juno:13 Pisces 13
Vesta:02 Pisces 41

Eris:24 Aries 05 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:2
Water:7
Cardinal:5
Fixed:4
Mutable:10

The 13 Witches Runes

The Witches Runes are different from the Elder Futhark Runes in that the Witches Runes are not an alphabet. The Witches Runes are instead a series of symbols that can be used in divination. There are different versions of the Witches Runes, one uses 8 symbols, another uses 10 symbols and the one discussed here uses 13 symbols. Cast the Witches Runes the same way your would the Runes.

The 13 witches Runes in divination

You can cast the Witches runes on a cloth, or on the table and read the meaning of the runes that are facing upwards only. If the eye is amongst the runes look at where the eye is looking. If there is a rune in front of the eye then this is the rune you must pay extra attention to.

You can also read the Witches runes by picking on rune at a time while you ask the runes a question.

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November 29 Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2022 November 29

The Gum Nebula Supernova Remnant

Image Credit & Copyright: Victor Lima

Explanation: Because the Gum Nebula is the closest supernova remnant, it is actually hard to see. Spanning 40 degrees across the sky, the nebula appears so large and faint that it is easily lost in the din of a bright and complex background. The Gum Nebula is highlighted nicely in red emission toward the right of the featured wide-angle, single-image photograph taken in late May. Also visible in the frame are the Atacama Desert in Chile in the foreground, the Carina Nebula in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy running diagonally down from the upper left, and the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy. The Gum Nebula is so close that we are much nearer the front edge than the back edge, each measuring 450 and 1500 light years respectively. The complicated nebula lies in the direction of the constellations of Puppis and Vela. Oddly, much remains unknown about the Gum Nebula, including the timing and even number of supernova explosions that formed it.

November 29 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

526 A possible date for the Antioch earthquake in present-day Syria (then the Byzantine Empire) which killed 200,000 people

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie‘s army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle

1877 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time

1935 Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment “Schrödinger’s cat”, a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics

1951 1st underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada

Today’s Historical Events

526 A possible date for the Antioch earthquake in present-day Syria (then the Byzantine Empire) which killed 200,000 people

799 Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome

1349 Jews of Augsburg, Germany massacred

1516 Treaty of Freiburg: French/Swiss “eternal” peace treaty

1561 Lofland subjects himself on Sigismund August II of Poland

1573 Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands

1581 Doornik (Tournai) surrenders to Duke of Parma

1596 King Philip II devalues Spanish currency

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1932 Cole Porter‘s musical “Gay Divorcee” opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC, later transferred to the Schubert Theater; runs for 248 performances

1945 “The Lost Weekend”, based on Charles R. Jackson’s novel, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Best Picture 1946)

1948 1st opera to be televised, “Othello”, broadcast from the Met (NYC)

1948 KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting

1948 Puppet TV show”Kukla, Fran, & Ollie” starring Fran Allison debuts on NBC

1953 WSIX TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting

1971 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World

1989 8th Largest wrestling crowd UFW U-Cosmos (60,000-Tokyo Dome)

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1825 Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera “Il barbiere di Siviglia” (The Barber of Seville) become 1st opera performed in Italian in US, staged at New York City’s Park Theater

1921 Z Parenteau & Schuyler Green’s musical “Kiki” premieres in NYC

1956 Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green‘s musical “Bells Are Ringing”, starring Judy Holiday, opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 924 performances, wins 2 Tony Awards

1959 2nd Grammy Awards: “Mack The Knife”, Bobby Darin win

1963 “I Want to Hold Your Hand” single released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom

1965 “Anya” opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 16 performances

1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their 1st album “Two Virgins” in UK

1969 The Beatles’ single “Something / Come Together” reaches #1

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1894 3rd Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 18-0 in Montgomery

1909 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Sydney, Australia: Norman Brookes & Anthony Wilding beat Americans Melville Long & Maurice McLoughlin 12-10, 9-7, 6-3; Australasia unassailable 3-0 lead; win 5-0

1913 CFL Grey Cup, AAA Grounds, Hamilton: Hamilton Tigers beat Toronto Parkdale, 44-2; second-largest margin of victory in a Grey Cup final

1924 CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Queen’s University wins 3rd straight Championship; defeat Toronto Balmy Beach, 11-3

1924 NHL’s Montreal Forum opens

1926 Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager

1934 Chicago Bears beat Detroit (19-16) in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally

1938 Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Netherlands and Germany

A Laugh for Today

Wishing you a terrific Tuesday!

28 November 2022 Southern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions 

If you want to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link 

Currentplanetarypositions.com 

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) for your local time use this link 

For Your Local Time and Date 

Southeastern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America 

29 November 2022
03:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:07 Sagittarius 22
Moon:24 Aquarius 33
Mercury:18 Sagittarius 57
Venus:16 Sagittarius 47
Mars:19 Gemini 23 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 51
Saturn:19 Aquarius 46
Uranus:16 Taurus 06 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 45

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 10 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:11 Taurus 55 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 32

Chiron:12 Aries 12 Rx
Ceres:24 Virgo 06
Pallas:26 Cancer 33
Juno:13 Pisces 06
Vesta:02 Pisces 33

Eris:24 Aries 05 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:3
Water:6
Cardinal:5
Fixed:5
Mutable:9

Southern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa 

 29 November 2022
10:00 am GMT 12:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:07 Sagittarius 09
Moon:21 Aquarius 36
Mercury:18 Sagittarius 38
Venus:16 Sagittarius 31
Mars:19 Gemini 28 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 51
Saturn:19 Aquarius 45
Uranus:16 Taurus 06 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 45

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 10 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:11 Taurus 56 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 30

Chiron:12 Aries 12 Rx
Ceres:24 Virgo 02
Pallas:26 Cancer 33
Juno:13 Pisces 02
Vesta:02 Pisces 29

Eris:24 Aries 05 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:3
Water:6
Cardinal:5
Fixed:5
Mutable:9

Southwestern Hemisphere 

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

29 November 2022
01:00 am GMT 12:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:06 Sagittarius 46
Moon:16 Aquarius 14
Mercury:18 Sagittarius 04
Venus:16 Sagittarius 03
Mars:19 Gemini 36 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 51
Saturn:19 Aquarius 44
Uranus:16 Taurus 07 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 44

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 11 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:11 Taurus 57 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 28

Chiron:12 Aries 12 Rx
Ceres:23 Virgo 54
Pallas:26 Cancer 33
Juno:12 Pisces 56
Vesta:02 Pisces 23

Eris:24 Aries 05 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:3
Water:6
Cardinal:5
Fixed:5
Mutable:9

A Thought for Today

Dear sisters, brothers, and honored guests may your life be blessed with all things positive! 

Spanish Stonehenge’ emerges from drought-hit reservoir

A Spanish “stonehenge” has reemerged amid the country’s devastating drought, officials said.

The historic marvel, officially called the Dolmen of Guadalperal, has only been visible four times, according to officials.

Experts believe the striking circle of dozens of megalithic stones has existed since 5000 BC. However, it was first discovered by German archaeologist Hugo Obermaier in 1926 before it became flooded in 1963 due to a rural development project under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship.

Now, the structure sits in a corner of the Valdecanas reservoir located in the country’s central province of Caceres.

As Spain faces its worst drought in 60 years, officials say the water level in the reservoir has dropped to 28% capacity.

“It’s a surprise, it’s a rare opportunity to be able to access it,” archaeologist Enrique Cedillo from Madrid’s Complutense University told Reuters.

The structure itself has an unknown creator, experts say.

Dolmens are vertically arranged stones that usually support a flat boulder or capstone, according to…

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November 28, 2022 Daily Horoscopes

Click here to read Georgi Nicols Daily Horoscopes 

Moon Alert

Avoid shopping or making important decisions after 10:30 PM PST today. The Moon is in Aquarius.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

As this week begins, you are determined to make some headway. And you will. In fact, whatever you do, you will do very carefully and you will give it much thought. If you have to convince someone to agree with you, you will do so carefully and logically.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Today you will be very careful with your money. (For the most part, you usually are because you are the financial wizard of the zodiac.) If you are pondering investments, you will be cautious and conservative. If shopping, you will likewise be thrifty. Nothing foolish.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

Mars is still in your sign (as it will remain so for the rest of the year), but now it is retrograde. This means that whatever you do today, you will do with careful planning and a cautious approach. Nothing wild eyed and crazy. You want to be sure about what you’re doing, which is why you’re taking baby steps.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

Today you might feel hesitant because you’re not sure of the outcome of something. However, you’re prepared to work in a very hands-on way, which is why you will roll up your sleeves and get involved. Coworkers are supportive. Nevertheless, you are cautious.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)

Today you might be an excellent role model to a friend or a member of a group. Someone sees that you have done your homework. You have worked carefully, perhaps even practising or honing a technique, to be as productive as you are. Excellent example!

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Although your ambitions are still aroused, with Mars retrograde at the top of your chart, you will be careful about going after what you want. You will check things out first. You will get your facts. You will make sure that you don’t overreach or stick your neck out too far.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

This is a solid day to make future travel plans. Likewise, it’s a good day to make detailed plans about further education or training. You’re in the right frame of mind to proof written material, as well as to discuss serious topics regarding politics or religion.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

You will be diligent and careful dealing with financial matters, especially anything to do with shared property, taxes, debt, inheritances and insurance issues. You will leave no stone unturned because you want to get on top of things. You want to feel in control of your security.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

This is an excellent day to discuss practical matters with a friend, partner or spouse. It might concern how money is handled, or the division of labour, or future travel plans. It could be anything but whatever it is, it’s important to you.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Today you will work diligently to achieve your objectives. You will work carefully, slowly and with steady perseverance. You will be like the tortoise who won the race because you won’t stop. Actually, this is your style, which is why you earn the respect of others.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Children might be an increased responsibility for you today. Whatever the case, you will be serious in your approach. You might outline duties and responsibilities involved, especially if you share these with someone else. You might also train or teach someone younger.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)

You feel a bit out of touch with things at home lately, which is why today you want to work slowly and carefully to restore some order to where you live. You know that when you feel things are “pulled together,” you have greater peace of mind.

If Your Birthday Is Today

Actress Karen Gillan (1987) shares your birthday today You are friendly, confident and generous. Many of you are animal lovers and fight for animal rights. This year is the final year of a nine-year cycle for you, which means it’s time to let go of anyone or anything that is holding you back. Time to take inventory.

November 28 Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2022 November 28

Leonid Meteors Through Orion

Image Credit & Copyright: Luo Hongyang

Explanation: Where will the next meteor appear? Even during a meteor shower, it is practically impossible to know. Therefore, a good way to enjoy a meteor shower is to find a place where you can sit comfortably and monitor a great expanse of dark sky. And it may be satisfying to share this experience with a friend. The meteor shower depicted was the 2022 Leonids which peaked earlier this month, and the view is from Hainan, China looking out over the South China Sea. Meteor streaks captured over a few hours were isolated and added to a foreground image recorded earlier. From this place and time, Leonid meteors that trace back to the constellation of Leo were seen streaking across other constellations including Orion. The bright red planet Mars appears near the top of the image. Bonding over their love of astronomy, the two pictured meteor enthusiasts, shown celebrating their common birthday this month, are now married.

 

Volcano Erupts in Mauna Loa, Hawaii

Nov. 28 (UPI) — Mauna Loa, one of the five volcanoes that form Hawaii’s Big Island, is erupting for the first time in 38 years, though no evacuations have yet been ordered.

The eruption began around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday in Mokuaweoweo, the summit caldera of the volcano, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said on Monday as it issued a red warning .

“The eruption is currently confined to the summit, and there is no indication that magma is moving into either rift zone,” the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement on Twitter.

 

Webcams maintained by USGS showed lava erupting from fissures running along the floor of the caldera.

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said in an update around 2:43 a.m. that the vents remained constricted to the summit area but that lava flows were visible from Kona.

The National Weather Service in Honolulu issued a warning on Twitter that “winds may carry volcanic gas and possibly fine ash and Pele’s hair downwind.”

An ashfall advisory was in effect until 6 a.m., with up to a quarter of an inch of ashfall accumulation possible.

The last time that the 13,681-foot volcano erupted was in…

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November 27, 2022 Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2022 November 27

Supernumerary Rainbows over New Jersey

Image Credit & Copyright: John Entwistle

Explanation: Yes, but can your rainbow do this? After the remnants of Hurricane Florence passed over the Jersey Shore, New Jersey, USA in 2018, the Sun came out in one direction but something quite unusual appeared in the opposite direction: a hall of rainbows. Over the course of a next half hour, to the delight of the photographer and his daughter, vibrant supernumerary rainbows faded in and out, with at least five captured in this featured single shot. Supernumerary rainbows only form when falling water droplets are all nearly the same size and typically less than a millimeter across. Then, sunlight will not only reflect from inside the raindrops, but interfere, a wave phenomenon similar to ripples on a pond when a stone is thrown in. In fact, supernumerary rainbows can only be explained with waves, and their noted existence in the early 1800s was considered early evidence of light’s wave nature.

Your Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (post 1995)

Massive Ancient Sea Turtle Discovered in Spain was Nearly the Size of a Car

Paleontologists in Spain believe they unearthed a new prehistoric sea turtle species that may be among the largest ever, according to research published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports.

Researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona analyzed the pelvis bone and posterior part of the shell recovered from the Pyrenees mountain region in northeastern Spain in 2016 and 2021, and determined the turtle was about 12 feet long (just smaller than the average sedan ), according to a news release on the study.

A hiker traversing the Pyrenees in 2016 stumbled upon part of the fossil. He called the local authorities who recovered the fossil and transferred it to a local museum, where it sat for years until 2021, according to Albert Sellés, a researcher with the university’s Miquel Crusafont Catalan Institute of Paleontology.

That’s when researchers decided to examine the fossil further, Sellés said.

Paleontologists returned to the site where the fossil was found in early 2021 and unearthed another piece of the fossil, according to Sellés.

Sellés, who co-authored the study, said the team began comparing newly discovered remains to other giant ancient sea turtles in the fossil record like Archelon and Protostega , both of which roamed the waters near North America and were the best potential matches. But the fossils had distinct features. Its shell was different, as was its pelvis.

“That’s when we realized that what we had before us was something different,” Sellés told USA TODAY Tuesday.

An ancient treasure trove: Looking back at the King Tut tomb discovery 100 years later

The newly discovered turtle is slightly smaller than the extinct Archelon. The world’s largest known prehistoric sea turtle, Archelon could grow to be up to 15 feet long and weigh as much as 3.5 tons, according to the news release.

Still, they were looking at the largest turtle ever found in Europe, Sellés said. The new species, Leviathanochelys aenigmatica, lived 72.1 to 83.6 million years ago during the Campanian Age, when much of modern-day Europe was underwater, the researcher say.

Sellés and his colleagues could glean relatively little about the giant turtle’s lifestyle with such incomplete remains. But they were able to identify some quirks in its physiology.

The pelvis, for example, has two protruding sections that Sellés hypothesizes could have allowed the turtle to compress its stomach area to expel air from its body and descend into deeper waters.

Hairy snail?: An ancient hairy snail was discovered in 99-million-year-old amber from the Mesozoic era

Leviathanochelys aenigmatica’s very existence also complicates previous understanding about the evolution of large sea turtles because it shows other species of ancient sea turtle could achieve a massive size.

“The evolution of turtles’ sizes is more complex than what he had thought up to this point,” Sellés said. “It was always thought that large sea turtles belonged to the Archelon and Protostega groups. Now it doesn’t seem so.”

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Massive ancient sea turtle discovered in Spain was nearly the size of a car, researchers say

A Laugh for Today

A Thought for Today

Dear sisters, brothers, and honored guests may your life be blessed with all things positive! 

November 26, 2022 Moon Goddess Current Phase

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious, you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else was born.  

From MoonGiant.com 

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a  Waxing Crescent Phase. Best seen in the west after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. This is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface. The moon is close to the sun in the sky and mostly dark except for the right edge of the moon which becomes brighter as the days get closer to the next phase which is a First Quarter with a 50% illumination.

Visit the November 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Crescent Phase

The Waxing Crescent on November 26 has an illumination of 9%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On November 26 the Moon is 2.87 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

Phase Details

Phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 9%
Moon Age: 2.87 days
Moon Angle: 0.55
Moon Distance: 364,065.91 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,621,729.84 km

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

November 26, 2022 Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

If you want to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link 

Currentplanetarypositions.com 

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) for your local time use this link 

For Your Local Time and Date 

Northwestern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Los Angeles, California, USA 

November 26, 2022
08:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM PST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:04 Sagittarius 32
Moon:14 Capricorn 00
Mercury:14 Sagittarius 41
Venus:13 Sagittarius 16
Mars:20 Gemini 24 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 49
Saturn:19 Aquarius 36
Uranus:16 Taurus 12 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 40 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 41

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 17 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:12 Taurus 04 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 13

Chiron:12 Aries 15 Rx
Ceres:23 Virgo 09
Pallas:26 Cancer 29
Juno:12 Pisces 21
Vesta:01 Pisces 42

Eris:24 Aries 06 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:6
Air:2
Water:6
Cardinal:6
Fixed:4
Mutable:9

Northern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Chicago, Illinois, USA 

  November 26, 2022
06:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM CST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:04 Sagittarius 27
Moon:12 Capricorn 46
Mercury:14 Sagittarius 33
Venus:13 Sagittarius 10
Mars:20 Gemini 26 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 49
Saturn:19 Aquarius 36
Uranus:16 Taurus 12 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 40 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 41

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 17 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:12 Taurus 04 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 12

Chiron:12 Aries 15 Rx
Ceres:23 Virgo 08
Pallas:26 Cancer 29
Juno:12 Pisces 20
Vesta:01 Pisces 41

Eris:24 Aries 06 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:6
Air:2
Water:6
Cardinal:6
Fixed:4
Mutable:9

Northeastern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe 

26 November 2022 
11:00 am GMT 12:00 PM CET
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:04 Sagittarius 09
Moon:08 Capricorn 27
Mercury:14 Sagittarius 06
Venus:12 Sagittarius 48
Mars:20 Gemini 32 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 49
Saturn:19 Aquarius 35
Uranus:16 Taurus 13 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 40 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 41

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 18 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:12 Taurus 05 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 10

Chiron:12 Aries 16 Rx
Ceres:23 Virgo 02
Pallas:26 Cancer 28
Juno:12 Pisces 15
Vesta:01 Pisces 36

Eris:24 Aries 06 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:6
Air:2
Water:6
Cardinal:6
Fixed:4
Mutable:9