Northern Sky: November 12-26

Deane Morrison is a science writer at the University of Minnesota, where she authors the Minnesota Starwatch column.

A supermoon, also called the Beaver Moon, mid-month; Venus bright in the southwest horizon; the "loneliest star" can be seen in the east; Jupiter in the morning sky; Leonid meteor shower may be diminished by the waning moon; a bright Acturus - the "guardian of the bear."

(Photo courtesy of Dave Grubb on Flickr)