Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Expanding Stories

Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

A transformative renewal program across four sites

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Sky Guide November 2024

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

2024

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

Powerhouse Parramatta Topping Out

Major construction milestone achieved for the new museum

2024

Stories

Sky Guide November 2024

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

With Geoffrey Wyatt and Dr Sarah Reeves

'November brings excellent planet viewing: Jupiter makes appearances in both the evening and morning sky, joined by Mercury, Venus and Saturn in the evenings. Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be well past its prime but may still be seen in a dark moonless sky to the west just after sunset. Meanwhile there are some excellent deep-sky objects visible with the naked eye and several more viewable through a telescope or binoculars.'

Dr Sarah Reeves, curator and astronomer

Moon Phases

Moon rising behind gum trees silhouettes.

New Moon Friday 1 November 11:47 pm ADST

First quarter Saturday 9 November 4:55 pm AEDT

Full Moon Saturday 16 November 8:28 am AEDT

Last quarter Saturday 23 November 12:28 pm AEDT

Planets

EVENING

is low in the south-west, moving from Libra into Scorpius at the beginning of the November, then in the middle of the second week of the month into Ophiuchus, with a three-day sojourn in Scorpius soon afterwards. On 3 November, a very thin crescent Moon is above and to the left or south of Mercury. It passes Antares, the brightest star in Scorpius, on 10 November at a separation of four Moon-widths. At the end of the month, Mercury disappears into the twilight.