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COPYRIGHT 2003 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
Mercury spends most of November lost in the Sun's glare. But at month's end the planet may be visible through binoculars, low in the southwestern sky after sunset.
Brilliant Venus, at magnitude -3.9, shines low in the southwestern sky as darkness gathers. As the month begins, the planet sets less than an hour after the Sun. By month's end, though, the rapidly shortening days in the onrush to the (northern) winter solstice leave the planet setting more than an hour...
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