Solar System in November 2007

I’ll be editing and adding to this post over the next few days so stay tuned!
Observations are for roughly Nova Scotia, Canada (Time in AST and roughly 45 deg N Latitude)
Sun
On November 1 the sun is just inside the western border of Libra and will move through Libra, through Scorpius and come to rest, on [...]

Measuring angles in the night sky

Many of the “What’s Up?” postings will make reference to angular separations of objects in the night sky. For example, you may see a listing such as “Spica 1.8 degrees North of the Moon” or maybe “Venus 3 degrees North of the Moon” or even “Venus is 28 degrees above the horizon”. So how [...]