Today:
For tomorrow’s Thanksgiving holiday, we celebrate the harvest and the riches of the soil. A along the northern horizon a low and level view show will show the Big Dipper. In the British Isles, it is imagined as a plough, with the bowl of the Dipper forming the blade, almost appearing to turn over the ground along the northern horizon.
Thursday:
Between 5:30 and 6 PM, look about halfway up in the northeastern sky. Here lies a constellation within which Perseus hold he head of the Medusa in his left hand; in the Medusa’s right eye shines the binary star Algol, “The Ghoul”. Between 7:44 and 9:44 PM, Algol reaches its minimum brightness, when the fainter of its two stars eclipses the brighter star.
Friday:
Looking due east, two-thirds of the way up from the horizon at 5:30 PM, the middle star of Andromeda marks her waist, joined by a star of similar brightness to the upper right for her head, and another marking her foot to the lower left. Follow two fainter stars up from her waist to find a faint smudge of light, the Andromeda Galaxy.