The sky on Friday, Nov 13, in plain words

Waxing crescent Moon in Capricorn, 16% lit.

Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are retrograde: they only appear to move backward from Earth.

Mercury stops appearing to move backward at 10:54 a.m. ET. Venus stops appearing to move backward at 7:27 p.m. ET.

Computed for 8:00 a.m. ET, never guessed.