... Rare Opportunity to Spot Mercury in Evening Sky. ... a rare opportunity to observe the planet Mercury, the smallest and fastest-moving ... Mercury revolves around the Sun in an elliptical orbit with a period of just 88 days ...
... getting harder to see, as it's now even closer to the Sun than the Venus-Mercury pair, 1 deg 32' away to the lower right (P.A. = 225 deg) The very closest approach of Venus Mercury takes place at 16.45 BST on 27 June; that's still daylight here of course ...
... We missed third contact, but saw the disc of Mercury about bisected by the imaginary limb at about 11.30, and we could no longer see any sign of Mercury by 11.31.40. ...
... 3 Oct 2003 19:46:22 EDT Subject: IAA meet, Fireball, Mercury Occ, WSP in S Hi all, 1 ... Mercury will occulted by the Moon on Oct 25 as seen from Ireland, at about 12.10 UT ...
... MERCURY + VENUS: Mercury continues its favourable evening elongation, close to ... Mercury will have moved back to about 7ТА below right of Venus, and faded to mag +1 ...
... Saturn and Mars are at the top left, Venus is the very bright object and Mercury appears through the clouds. ... Viewed soon after sunset, Mercury might just be seen twinkling low on the western horizon. ...
... In the case of Mercury, Burger and colleagues analyzed the Messenger data and found a pattern for the element Calcium that repeats from one of Mercury s 88-day long years to the next. ...