| THE COLONY NEWS | NOVEMBER 2022 | 17
By Mike Vergara, 951- 461-2889
It's November, and at last I can say that the Palomar
College Planetarium is open for business. Full
disclosure: I "work" at the Planetarium.
We have presentations every Friday night. The first,
at 7 pm, is our "Sky Tonight" program. We project an
image of the night sky on the planetarium's dome
and talk about what we can see. I like to say that we
give facts, figures, myths and legends. It's a "live"
presentation in that there is a narrator (me, among
others) who guides you through what's up there. The
second presentation starts at 8:15 pm and is one of
four movies that have been formatted specially for
projection on a 360-degree dome. We also set up
telescopes (weather permitting) for viewing after the
presentations.
We try to make it fun and interesting. Each
presentation is $5 for seniors and $7 for general
admission. I hope you will come and see the show.
For more information, please go to "www.palomar.edu/
planetarium."
November is another good month for meteors. The
"Leonids" meteor shower will peak overnight on
Thursday, the 17th. The moon will be a waning crescent,
so it should not have too big an effect on viewing. As
usual, the best times for viewing start after midnight.
November's full moon is on Tuesday, the 8th. This
month's full moon was known as the "Beaver Moon"
because this is the time of year when beavers begin to
take shelter in their lodges, having saved lots of food
for the long winter ahead.
On the night of the full moon there is also total lunar
eclipse. The moon will start to slip into the Earth's
shadow just after midnight. The peak of the eclipse
will be at 3 am, and it will all be over at 6 am.
Visit http://skymaps.com/index.html to print your
own map of the sky for the month. For information
about satellites or the ISS, go to https://heavens-
above.com.
Clear skies!
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