November 2023 Skywatching Tips

November 4, 2023

In the night sky in November, you will find Venus and Jupiter on opposite sides of the sky. Look for Jupiter in the eastern sky all night and see it set 0:16 just before sunrise. Look for the nearly full moon next to Jupiter after sunset on the 24th. Venus rises in the west in the eraly morning hours. You can see the crescent moon hanging just beneath Venus in the early morning sky before sunrise on November 9th. The crescent moon will be low in the sky on November 17th, where it looks larger sitting near the horizon. Near the end of November, Venus rises in the early morning next to what looks a bright star. That star is Spica, which is actually two massive stars that orbit around each other every four days. The annual Leonid meteor shower returns this month and it peaks between midnight and dawn on November 18th. Learn more at NASA.

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