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Mercury Tonight

Started by jonisaacs, 05/20/2008 12:02AM
Posted 05/20/2008 12:02AM Opening Post
Hi: Just a bit of heads up to do some early evening observing and see if you can catch Mercury. Thanks to a head's up from Curt Renz, I have been watching for the last week or so, it's a crescent right now and waning so it's the right time.

Last night I caught it about 25 minutes after sunset when it was about 14 degrees above the horizon. I got some nice views with my 60mm Pentax.

Jon