In the last week of January and into the first week of February, all six naked-eye planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Earth - will be visible at the same time.
In the last week of January and into the first week of February, all six naked-eye planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Earth - will be visible at the same time.
Starting late-January, in the morning sky shortly before
sunrise, six planets will be visible at the same time. The trickiest
planet to catch will be Mercury, which - as the planet nearest the Sun
and thus never moving too far from our bright star - will be low in the
east before sunrise.
Start looking on the morning of January 23, when super-low
Mercury may be visible before sunrise. It gets easier each morning
afterwards.
From January 26 to about February 07, the Moon joins the
sextet, waning to a beautiful slender crescent on February 06, when it
makes a spectacular grouping with Venus and Mercury - this is not to be
missed!
