Aim your telescope toward the constellation Cepheus for a face-on view of the spiral galaxy NGC6946. This beautiful object has a high star birth and death rate and has produced 10 supernovae over the last century. Courtesy Subaru Telescope, Robert Gendler, processing

The full moon in November occurs on the 23rd and is referred to as the Beaver Moon or the Frost Moon by Native Americans. The moon nearly always keeps the same face toward us because its spin time on its own axis equals the time it takes the moon to revolve around the Earth. Courtesy NASA

Although not an easy object for small telescopes, larger amateur instruments will reveal the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC891 to be a stunning sliver of light on clear November nights. Located about 28 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda, this galaxy is similar in many ways to our Milky Way Galaxy. Courtesy ESA, NASA, Hubble Space Telescope

The Double Cluster in Perseus is a favorite target for amateur astronomers using binoculars and can even be spotted without optical aid from dark sites. The stars making up these two clusters are very hot, young supergiants, many thousands of times more luminous than our sun. Courtesy N.A.Sharp/NOAO, AURA/NSF