var Author = "Content provided by various CAS contributors";
var Planets = [
"Mercury climbs into the evening sky after superior conjunction with the Sun on the 5th, its full disc about 5 arcseconds across.",
"Venus begins the month rising 90 minutes before sunrise, reducing to 50 minutes by month’s end. Its magnitude minus 3.8, 10 arcsecond wide disc is almost full.",
"Earth ",
"Mars in Cancer spends the first couple of nights of November in the Beehive cluster (the small misty patch between the sickle of Leo and Caster & Pollux), rising before midnight DST by month’s end. Its magnitude 0 gibbous disc has by then reached 9 arcseconds in size.",
"Jupiter high in the northwest after sunset, sets around midnight DST by month’s end.. At the start of the month the planet passes 1/2 a degree from the 4th magnitude star Iota Capricorni",
"Saturn in Virgo rises higher above the dawn sky, the north face of its rings now visible for the first time in nearly 14 years as the rings slowly begin to open, following their brief invisibility.",
"Uranus at magnitude 5.8 in Aquarius culminates around 9pm DST mid-month.",
"Neptune at magnitude 7.9 is in Capricornus, at month’s end just 3 degrees from Jupiter and closing.",
"Pluto in Sagittarius sets around 10pm DST mid-month.",
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var NumMoon = 4;
var Moon = [
"| 03 November<\/td> | Full Moon<\/td>",
" | 10 November<\/td> | Last Quarter<\/td>",
" | 17 November<\/td> | New Moon<\/td>",
" | 25 November<\/td> | First Quarter<\/td>",
];
var NumComets = 0;
var Comets = [
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var NumMinors = 3;
var Minors = [
" | Minor planets at opposition include:<\/td>",
" | 51 Nemausa (mag 10.6) on 15th November in Taurus. <\/td>",
" | 346 Hermentaria (mag 10.95 on 29th November in Taurus. <\/td>",
];
var NumShowers = 4;
var Showers = [
" | South Taurids peaks on the 5th November.<\/td>",
" | North Taurids peaks on the 12th November.<\/td>",
" | Leonids active from the 10th to the 21st and peaking on the 18th.<\/td>",
" | alpha-Monocerotids peaks on the 22nd November.<\/td>",
];
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