Planetary pair

Venus and Mercury make a nice pair during twilight this month. They look beautiful together in the same FOV of my binoculars. I got about 30 minutes of viewing in before the clouds rolled over. Check it out!

Mike

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Last Friday I saw Mercury 2 fingers at an armlengths distance from brilliant Venus . "Observation" was done from my bedroomwindow and no optical aid what-so-ever was needed. It`s always so exciting to get a glimpse of the little planet. First time I spotted it was 24/4-89 according to my log.But I have never seen it so close to Venus. My first observation of Mercury is one of my happiest memory from observing Never forget when I first nailed it ca 10* above the horizon (well Baltic Sea actually) with my 10X50B and 10 min. later it was obvius to my naked eye. Marvelous

-Magnus
57*N.

Michael Greenham said:

Venus and Mercury make a nice pair during twilight this month. They look beautiful together in the same FOV of my binoculars. I got about 30 minutes of viewing in before the clouds rolled over. Check it out!

Mike

Mike:

I have been watching them... In particular Mercury, a couple of days ago it was at "dichotomy", 50% illuminated, last night the beginnings of the crescent were quite apparent. I just love watching the crescent grow each night.

jon