What's in the Night Sky
Neptune is in conjunction with the Sun on the 17th and is therefore not visible, but Mercury makes a strong appearance in the evening sky from around the 10th onwards...
Saturn will be lost to the glare of the Sun by mid-month, but a thin, crescent Moon appears to the lower left of it shortly after sunset on the 10th. Neptune is too faint and low for proper observation, but Jupiter remains easily visible in the evening...
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Saturn is low in the southwest after sunset and is visited by the waxing crescent Moon on the 14th. Similarly, you only have an hour or two to observe Neptune before it sinks too close to the horizon, but Jupiter remains visible throughout the evening...
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Mars is too close to the Sun to be visible, but Mercury reaches elongation in the evening sky on the 4th, with a crescent Moon to its upper left on the 14th. Mercury is then lost within the Sun’s glare a few days later...
Mars is in conjunction with the Sun on the 18th and won’t be visible, but Mercury can be seen in the evening sky during the second half of the month...
Mars is lost to the Sun’s glare this month, while Saturn remains visible throughout the evening in Aquarius, with a waxing gibbous Moon nearby on the 23rd and 24th...
Your last chance to see Mars low in the west shortly after sunset will probably come around the 10th, but Saturn remains visible throughout the entire night. It’ll be rising as Mars sets, with the waxing gibbous Moon just below it on the 26th...
Mercury and Mars remain in the evening twilight and can be seen low over the western horizon from about 15 minutes after sunset. However, while Mercury reaches greatest elongation on the 9th, it then disappears around the 20th...
Mercury, Venus, and Mars each appear close to the star Regulus this month. Mars is closest on the 10th when about 0.8 degrees will separate them, with Venus being closest from the 14th to the 16th, with 3.5 degrees between them...
Venus and Mars spend most of the month in Cancer. Mars appears near the center of the Beehive Cluster on the 2nd, while Venus will be closest on the 13th, but with the cluster low in the sky, its stars might prove difficult to spot...
Uranus is in conjunction with the Sun on the 9th, with Neptune also invisible. However, both Venus and Mars can still be seen in the evening sky, with the waxing crescent Moon to the lower right of Venus on the 22nd...
Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune are too close to the Sun to be observable this month, but Mercury continues to climb into the evening twilight. Start searching low over the western horizon at about 15 minutes after sunset; the planet will be highest at greatest...