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.

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.

Venus is an easy planet to find as it is the brightest object in our night sky after the Moon. It has the highest albedo of any major planet in our solar system - that is reflects more sunlight back into space thus appearing brighter.

It is also usually the closest planet to Earth in its orbit - a mere 24 million miles away at times. It is a similar size too.

It will be higher in the sky than Mercury and visible earlier in the night in the hours before sunrise.

Don't mistake it with the bright star Spica which will be close to it. Stars twinkle while planets glow steadily.

Mars and Jupiter will appear to be very close to each other in the sky on the 15 and 16 November.

Mars is currently high in the eastern sky, with Jupiter below but appearing brighter.

"They will be separated by just 1.2 degrees, or roughly the width of a finger held at arm's length," according to Gideon Bendavid-Walker, astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

The two planets will appear close to the bright star Regulus and may even look like a triple star.

If you have binoculars or a telescope then a few other bonus planets will also be visible this month.

At a similar time before sunrise, Uranus will be setting in the west. Then Saturn and Neptune will also be visible for a time in the evening rather than the morning sky.

To view the parade, find a spot away from light pollution with a good view of the eastern horizon and let your eyes adjust to the dark for around twenty minutes.

The best time to view the planetary lineup is approximately 45-60 minutes before sunrise.

Saturday night will turn progressively more cloudy and windy with outbreaks of rain making their way eastwards.

An early frost could still be likely under clearer skies in the south and east, but even here the breeze and cloud will tend to increase.

Sunday night is forecast to be drier, as the day's rain and hill snow clear. However, wintry showers will pester northern Scotland with plenty of cloud.

Also the odd shower will pop up around north-west facing coasts.

Otherwise, the night looks mostly clear and dry, apart from the odd mist of fog patch.

Keep up with the weather where you are.