Mercury looks equally appealing through a telescope. On the 1st, it shows a disk 6″ in diameter that appears 83 percent lit. At greatest elongation, the planet spans 7″ while the Sun ...

Although it has dimmed to magnitude –0.4, that’s brighter than any other early evening object except for Venus and the night sky’s brightest star, Sirius. A telescope shows Mercury’s 7.3 ...

The new moon of July 2024 occurs today as Earth reaches its farthest point from the sun, known as aphelion. The new moon ...

In fact, on the evening of March 15, Mercury's brightness will have dropped to magnitude +1.6; as bright as the star Castor in Gemini and only 1/11 as bright as it is now.

Object of the week: Mercury Since it orbits the Sun every 88 days, the tiny planet Mercury pings briefly into, then back out, the pre-dawn and post-sunset night sky. It rarely appears to get far ...

Star Gazers STGZ443 December 16-22, 2024 “Morning Mercury and Evening Venus Dec 2024” Aired 11/24/2024 Star Gazers is presented by your local public television station.

By the evening of Feb. 17, Mercury's brightness will drop to magnitude +1.6 — about as bright as the star Castor, in the constellation Gemini, but only about 9% as bright as it appears now.

Orion may be seen throughout the month of January. Orion is low in the east-southeast around 8 p.m. in early January, 7 p.m. mid-month, and in twilight at 6 p.m. at month’s end.

Catch Jupiter and Mercury side by side in the evening sky this week. Anthony Wood. Fri, June 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC. ... at which time they will follow our star below the horizon.