Article Source: The Daily Camera

Written by - Daniel Zantzinger - November 7th, 2008

Accessing November’s night sky is as easy as glancing upward with the naked eye, but a cornucopia of celestial treats awaits skywatchers who make the effort to dig a little deeper.

Two bright lights in the southwestern sky, planets Venus and Jupiter, are eye-catching at dusk. Early in the month, it’s easy to tell them apart when one remembers that the brighter one, Venus shining at a magnitude of minus-4.0, is lower to the right, and Jupiter, magnitude minus-2.1, is much higher to the left. Venus shifts to the lower left of Jupiter by month’s end.

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