This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: November 9 to 15, 2026
New moon falls at 1:02 AM on Monday, so this is the darkest week of November: the Moon is absent until Wednesday evening and sets before 11 PM…
November 2026
11 posts tagged November 2026
Full Moon
Beaver Moon 2026: Date, Time and the Supermoon Question
The Beaver Moon of 2026 is full on Tuesday, November 24 at 14:53 UTC, which is 8:53 AM Central Standard Time, mid-morning in the Americas and late evening…
Meteor Showers
Leonids Meteor Shower 2026: Peak Night and How to Watch
The Leonid meteor shower peaks on the night of Tuesday, November 17 to Wednesday, November 18, 2026, with 10 to 15 meteors an hour under a dark sky…
This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: November 2 to 8, 2026
This is the dark week of November: the waning crescent Moon thins from 40 percent on Monday to nothing by Sunday, rising later each morning and leaving the…
Planets
Which Planets Are Visible Tonight? November 2026
In November 2026 the planets split cleanly between dusk and dawn. After sunset there is Saturn, high in the south-east, with Neptune and Uranus for telescope and binocular…
Meteor Showers
Taurid Meteor Showers 2026: Fireball Season, Dark Moon
The Taurid meteor showers peak in the first half of November 2026 under a near-perfect Moon: the Southern Taurids around Thursday, November 5, and the Northern Taurids around…
Sky Guides
November 2026 Night Sky Guide: Moon, Planets, Meteor Showers
November 2026 is a morning month. Jupiter and Mars meet before dawn on the 16th, Venus returns as the Morning Star and reaches its brightest on the 27th,…
Planets
Mars and Jupiter Conjunction on November 16, 2026
Mars passes 1.2 degrees from Jupiter on November 16, 2026, close enough that the two planets fit in the same binocular field and almost in the same low-power…
This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: October 26 to November 1, 2026
The week opens with the Hunter’s Moon rising just after sunset on Monday, covers the Pleiades on Tuesday night, then thins toward last quarter on Sunday, when the…