You may, if you have a clear western horizon, be able t spot Venus, as people have been doing. Mercury is much more difficult. Continue reading “Venus over Mercury”
Tag: Mercury
Mercury’s vertical leap
Mercury stands farthest out from the Sun, in the evening sky.
Editorial notice
That sounds pompous, I’ve borrowed it from the bulletins of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. But first —
Planet-crowding, and crowd-planning
On Sunday evening, March 18,the two inner planets and the slender Young Moon will make a sparkling line just above the western horizon.
Mercury on April the First
This is the best showing Mercury can make for you this evening: Continue reading “Mercury on April the First”
Dud events
Mercury will on August 16 stand out far on the evening side of the Sun – the farthest for the year. And yet it is the year’s worst apparition of Mercury!
Link to the Transit of Mercury
On Monday May 9 comes the passage of the pinpoint black planet (here shown 5 times larger than scale) across the vast boiling face of the Sun.
A density of meetings
Tomorrow morning the Moon will finish its plunge past a bright star and three bright planets by gliding less than a degree from little Mercury.
Mercury the Perverse
Northnorthnorth
Venus and Mercury are at their northernmost points – and, by chance, almost simultaneously.
