Archives for the 'Mercury' Category
After Sunset tonight
Published on 26 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Monday 26th July 2010
Sunset Planets
Mars and Saturn are meeting at a particular place with Venus to form a skinny triangle in the sunset sky in the West. When the sun sets tonight, go outside and look West.
Venus pops out of the twilight first, followed by Saturn, then Mars by binoculars or a small telescope.
See the [...]
Transit of Mercury
Published on 21 May 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 21st May 2010
Transit of Mercury
Occasionally, Mercury can seen acrossing the Sun known as “Transit of Mercury” (movie) – the last time, it was happened on 7th November 2003, before that it was 15th November 1999 but it was not visible from the United Kingdom, back to 10th November 1973 for the last Mercury [...]
Mercury
Published on 7 Apr 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 7th April 2010 @ 20:00 / 8pm
Mercury is at its greatest distance east from the Sun this evening, so you will see every evenings that Mercury is sloping low, lower and lowest meanwhile Venus is rising high, higher, and highest.
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Mercury
Published on 3 Apr 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 3rd April 2010 @ 20:00 / 8pm BST
Catch Mercury close to Venus in twilight in the western.
See the SkyMap.
See my archive :- Friday 26th March 2010.
Facts
Mercury is the smallest of the four inner planets (Mars, Earth, Venus and Mercury) and difficult to observe because it is never more than 28 degrees from the Sun, [...]
Venus and Mercury
Published on 26 Mar 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 26th March 2010 @ 20:00 / 8pm
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Mercury
The closest planet to the Sun, does re-appearance in the evening skies very low in the west during the last week of March that you may just catch a glimpse of Venus and Mercury before it sets on the horizon by a naked eye.
Both [...]
Mercury
Published on 27 Jan 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 27th January 2010 - 05:00 / 5am
Mercury is at greatest western elongation from the Sun.
See the diagram:- greatest western elongation.
Mercury
Published on 22 Jan 2010 at 00:00.
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Filed under Mercury, Solar System.
Friday 22nd January 2010 before sunrise in the morning.
Mercury is in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer), visible in the eastern sky before sunrise.
Mercury
Published on 13 Jan 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 13th January 2010 @ 18:00 / 6pm
With binoculars about 40 minutes before sunrise that you could see Mercury peering through of morning twilight to upper left of the Moon.
Mercury
Published on 4 Jan 2010 at 00:00.
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Monday 4th January 2010 at 19:00 / 7pm
Mercury is in conjunction with the Sun.
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