On the 28th, a young crescent moon appears above Venus, en route to a rendezvous the next night with Saturn. But while Venus is climbing, Jupiter is falling, and on the November 24 the planets come closest to each other, with Venus just to the lower left of Jupiter. The brightest of planets, it comes out in the southwestern twilight not far below Jupiter.
Meanwhile, Venus is slipping into the evening sky.
For several days between about the November 22-27, Spica, Mars and Mercury will be nearly equally spaced, in that order top-to-bottom, along a diagonal line. During the second week of the month, Spica climbs past Mars on the right.īy the last week of November, Mercury will have popped into the sky below Mars. As the days go by, Arcturus climbs rapidly away from Mars while Spica, the brightest star in Virgo, clears the horizon and heads toward the planet. Don’t confuse it with the bright star Arcturus, which is also near the horizon early in the month. Look for it just before the day starts to break. Mars begins November as a dim reddish dot close above the east-southeastern horizon.
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