A brief look again this week because there’s not a great deal going on just for once, I mentioned Hartley the comet last week, I looked for it again and I may have seen it, in fact I almost certainly did. There was no moon, I looked with binoculars a little to the east of Cassiopeia toward Perseus and saw hundreds of stars, the thing which has no tail and is allegedly surrounded by for want of a better word a smudge, was indiscernible amongst the milky way, and the moons back next week so it will there’s a guide above, if you think you may have better luck.
Next week maybe from Sunday onwards we have the Orionid meteor shower, which usually peaks on the 21st, but you’ll need to be up after midnight and look toward Orion in the east.
As for the planets we’ve just about got Venus and most definitely have Jupiter.
Venus, though very bright at magnitude –4.7, is disappearing very low in the southwest during bright evening twilight. It sets well before dark. And if you’re on St Mary’s you have to go up the garrison to see it. It’s a very pronounced crescent at the moment.
Jupiter is loitering at the Pisces-Aquarius border as twilight fades; the giant planet becomes very obvious low in the east-southeast. It shines high in the southeast by mid-evening, by far the brightest star like point in the sky. It's highest in the south around midnight. And well worth a look in binoculars where it will show as a clear disc with the 4 largest moons clearly visible.
And that was your night sky for the week ending on the 1st anniversary of Chris Stevens of New Richmond, Wisconsin proudly displaying the world’s biggest pumpkin at the Stillwater Harvest festival in Stillwater, Minnesota, it weighed 1810.IIbs 8 oz.
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