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pokerfan

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Thu Dec 22, 2011, 02:16 PM Dec 2011

Good 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 OP
Hopefully the new EPA emissions standards will get that mercury out of the sky jberryhill Dec 2011 #1
! laconicsax Dec 2011 #2
DUzy! Odin2005 Dec 2011 #4
I think I've seen Mercury only once in my life, during a transit in 2006 with a projection /nt jakeXT Dec 2011 #3
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