Mercury can be hard to spot, but late April 2022 is a great time as its the lone visible planet in the evening sky.
The Pleiades star cluster will join Mercury in the night sky on April 29. This chart from Starry Night shows the view at about 8:30 pm local time looking in the west.
Over the next couple of weeks, Mercury will slowly ebb in brightness, but it will also slowly gain altitude as it gradually moves away from the vicinity of the sun. The planet reaches greatest eastern elongation — its greatest angular distance east of the sun on April 29. Shining then at magnitude +0.4 , it will set about one hour and 50 minutes after the sun, making this Mercury's best evening apparition of 2022. Yourwill likely come 50 minutes after sunset; Mercury will sit 10 degrees above the west-northwest horizon. Your clenched fist held at arm's length measures roughly 10 degrees in width.
And if you use binoculars, there will be a bonus awaiting you, in that you'll also be able to see the beautifulCome May 2, another celestial body will arrive on the scene:. Having passed new phase two days earlier, the moon will appear as a slender sliver of light, only 4% illuminated by the sun. The moon will be situated 4 degrees to the upper left of Mercury. Meanwhile, the Pleiades will be positioned just 2.5 degrees to Mercury's lower right.
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