How to spot November's planetary parade in the pre-dawn sky

Stargazers are being treated to a diagonal parade of four planets in the pre-dawn sky throughout November.

Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will all be visible to the naked eye in the south-eastern to eastern sky.

Particularly notable will be the line-up on Monday 16 November when Mars and Jupiter will appear exceptionally close together, according to the Royal Museums Greenwich.

From 24 November, a full Moon - the first of a run of four supermoons - will also join the planets in the morning sky.

Mercury will be the hardest planet to spot in the parade.

As the closest planet to the Sun and the smallest in our solar system, it is permanently locked in solar glare.

It is only visible in twilight and never in a fully dark sky. As always it will be dim and close to the horizon.

Try spotting it in a wide open sky with a flat horizon and look to the south-east.

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