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Planetary highlights for November. Mercury switches from the evening to the morning sky. This one, the fact that it's already done that. While the giant planets dominate the night, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn offer many events. Venus stars on early morning, early November mornings, but drops lower day by day. Excerpts from Astronomy magazine November 2025, page 28. Mercury was at inferior conjunction back on the 20th, meaning that it was between us and the Sun on that particular day. Mercury will be stationary on the 29th, meaning that it does not appear to move relative to the background skies. It does move through the sky, but relative to the background stars, it appears to move right along with them. Mercury has moved to the morning sky now. It is rising about 5.24 AM by month's end. Mercury will be visible. It's going to be very difficult to spot Mercury in the early morning twilight glow for the rest of the month. But wait until the end of the month to see if you might. That gives it about 10 days to get up high. It is just barely above Venus, which is very, very low on the eastern horizon it was this morning. So take a look for Venus and Mercury tomorrow morning. If you can see Venus, just look just a teeny bit above it. You might be able to see Mercury. So check that out. Mercury has moved into the constellation of Libra, shining at magnitude 0.2. Quick tutorial on magnitudes. The magnitude scale is an inverse logarithmic scale, meaning as the magnitude increases, the apparent brightness of an object decreases by a factor of about 2.5. The dimmest object that the human eye can see is about 6 magnitudes. So any magnitudes greater than 6, you will need a telescope or binoculars to see any magnitudes less than six, you should be able to see with the naked eye. So a magnitude five object is about two and a half times brighter than a magnitude six object. The magnitude scale is set up so that every five magnitudes is a factor of about 100 times brightness, one way or another, either dimmer or brighter.