The planet Mercury reaches greatest western elongation from the Sun. This is the best time to view Mercury since it will be at its highest point above the horizon in the evening sky. You can look for the planet low in the sky just after sunset without the need for binoculars or a telescope due to Mercury’s brightness.

A Russian Soyuz Rocket will launch the Progress 79 cargo re-supply spacecraft top the ISS. It will launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Crew Dragon spacecraft on the Crew-3 mission which will be the third operational astronaut flight to the ISS.

The Taurids are a slow and long-lasting meteor shower occurring every year. They are best seen with a good, clear view of the stars with no clouds in sight, and especially somewhere with little to no light pollution.

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This new moon arrives at 21:14 Nov. 4 GMT

Uranus will reach opposition when it sits opposite to the Sun in the sky. The coldest planet in our solar system will be visible for much of the night, reaching its highest point in the sky around midnight GMT.

The moon and venus will be appearing quite close together on November 8th! They will reach their highest point in the sky during the daytime and should be visible with the naked eye, but definitely with a pair of binoculars.

The waxing crescent moon will pass less than a degree to the south of Saturn. Catch the pair together in the evening sky on November 10th.

The Moon and Jupiter will share the same right ascension with the Moon. Amateur stargazers will be able to see this conjunction with the naked eye or a pair of binoculars as the two will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope.

The Leonids is an average shower, producing up to 15 meteors per hour at its peak. This shower, however, is unique in that it has a cyclonic peak about every 33 years where hundreds of meteors per hour can be seen. The Leonids is produced by dust grains left behind by comet Tempel-Tuttle. The shower runs annually from November 6-30. It peaks this year on the night of the 17th and morning of the 18th.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the second COSMO-SkyMed 2nd Generation,  radar surveillance satellite for the Italian space agency.

This Full Moon will be illuminated 100% when the moon will be 14 days old.

This partial lunar eclipse is the last lunar eclipse of 2021. It will be visible from North and South America, Australia, and parts of Europe and Asia.

SpaceBar brings the space community together for a virtual get together with opportunities for networking and engaging discussions. This event will be held fortnightly on THURSDAYS at 7PM (BST), via Zoom, past events have had 40 to 100 participants, with discussion continuing long into the night.