November 2nd (AM) - The Moon, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars will form a nice line in the pre-dawn sky. Around 6:30AM, look for Venus glowing brightly very close to the eastern horizon and a triplet of the crescent Moon, Jupiter, and Mars higher in the eastern sky.

 

November 7th (AM) - Around 6:30AM, find Venus on the eastern horizon with the star Spica just to its left. Just below Venus, look for an incredibly slender crescent Moon.

 

Mid November (AM) - Over the first half of the month, watch as Mars approaches Jupiter in the early morning skies. Their closest approach will occur around November 15th.

 

November 17th (AM) - The Leonid meteor shower peaks this evening. This modest shower produces 10-15 meteors per hour under optimal conditions and originates from debris left by Comet 55P Tempel-Tuttle. The shower is famous for producing outbursts in the past. Viewing is best after midnight toward dawn.

 

November 30th (AM) - In a repeat display from earlier in the month, find Venus near the horizon before dawn, with the Moon, Jupiter and Mars grouping together higher in the sky.

 

 

November 18th - Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from the Earth, reaches the milestone distance of one light-day (over 16 billion miles). Communications with the spacecraft will take a full day to reach the spacecraft and a full day to return a signal to Earth.

 

November 21st - BepiColombo, a joint ESA and JAXA mission, will perform an orbital insertion maneuver to be captured by Mercury's gravity. 

 

November 25th - Expected release of initial photos from ESA's Hera mission, dedicated to follow-up observations of the binary asteroid Didymos & Dimorphos following NASA's DART mission which used a kinetic impactor to alter their orbit in 2022.

 

NET November - The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) hopes to launch Gaganyaan-1, an uncrewed test flight of its human-rated spacecraft.

 

NET November - Griffin Mission One, a robotic lunar lander and rover by Astrobotic is scheduled to launch and land at the Moon's south pole ahead of NASA's Artemis crewed landings.

 

November 2, 2000 - Expedition 1 crew arrives at the International Space Station, beginning humanity's continuous occupation of space since that date.

 

November 3, 1957 - Laika the dog becomes the first animal to orbit the Earth aboard the Soviet Union's Sputnik 2.

 

 

November 1st - 3rd Quarter

November 9th - New

November 17th - 1st Quarter

November 24th - Full (Beaver Moon)

 

 

Mercury - Difficult to spot in the Sun's glare early in the month; low on the eastern horizon before sunrise at the end of the month.

 

Venus - Becoming increasingly bright and prominent in the pre-dawn sky on the eastern horizon.

 

Mars - Rises in the east with Jupiter around midnight, visible until sunrise throughout the month.

 

Jupiter - Rises with Mars around midnight and is visible until dawn.

 

Saturn - Visible throughout the evening near the constellation Pisces.