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Planetary highlights for November. Mercury switches from the evening to morning sky this month while the giant planets dominate the night. The moons of Jupiter and Saturn offer many events. Venus stars on early November, drops day by day. This excerpt is from astronomy magazine November 2025, page 28. On with the planets, Mercury will be stationary on the ninth, where Mercury is at inferior conjunction on the 20th, meaning that it is between us and the Sun on that date. Mercury will be stationary again on the 29th. Mercury is now setting about 5.49 PM. After conjunction, Mercury returns to the morning sky setting about 5.00 or 8.00 PM by Monday. Mercury will be visible about 30 minutes after sunset low to the west during the first week or so of the month. This first week maybe into next week as well you still may be able to catch Mercury very low on the western horizon. After that, Mercury is lost in the evening and early morning twilight glow. Mercury moves from the constellation of Scorpius into Libra, shining at magnitude 0.2 on the 30th.