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Related: About this forumGood time to see Mercury right now
For you early risers. Mercury, like Venus, is always a morning or evening star. Right now it's a morning star.
Mercury, the innermost planet of the solar system, reaches its greatest elongation west of the sun tomorrow (Friday, December 23). That means this often hard-to-see world now climbs above the southeast horizon a maximum time before sunrise. Given a level and unobstructed horizon, Mercury rises about one and three-quarter hours before the sun at mid-northern latitudes, and about one and one-quarter hours before sunup at middle latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Good time to see Mercury right now (Original Post)
pokerfan
Dec 2011
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Hopefully the new EPA emissions standards will get that mercury out of the sky
jberryhill
Dec 2011
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)1. Hopefully the new EPA emissions standards will get that mercury out of the sky
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)3. I think I've seen Mercury only once in my life, during a transit in 2006 with a projection /nt