I stole my neighbor’s heavy-duty binoculars last Tuesday, and honestly, the cosmos deserved them way more than he did.
Daylight saving time officially slammed the brakes on November 1, 2026, and data from the U.S. Naval Observatory confirms that shift handed us gloriously earlier twilight hours for proper stargazing without entirely destroying our sleep schedules.
Mercury plays hard to get this month.
Its cozy solar proximity makes it an absolute ghost early on following its October eastern elongation, but astronomy rewards patience.
On November 20, 2026, the evasive little planet hits western elongation, and reports from the Lowell Observatory show it finally cuts through the haze to become completely discernible in the eastern pre-dawn sky.
Venus behaves like she owns the morning.
She cruises right ahead of the sun all through November 2026, offering reliable pre-dawn views that continuously sharpen as her angular separation from the solar disk widens toward month's end.
Jupiter and Mars refuse to maintain any personal space whatsoever.
They cozy up in a remarkably tight spatial pairing all month, dragging the star Regulus along to form an impossible-to-miss naked-eye trio against the dark.
Neptune and Saturn cruise along suspiciously close trajectories right now, though you will need actual glass to separate them from the background.
Pull out your telescope or binoculars, but prepare for a fight against your local zip code.
Urban light pollution in sprawling hubs like Los Angeles wages a daily war against the optical clarity amateur astronomers demand to track faint outer planets.
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