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COPYRIGHT 2001 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
Mercury is just above the west-northwestern horizon at midtwilight, climbing higher night after night. For observers at temperate northern latitudes, mid-May offers the year's best chance to see Mercury. It's at greatest eastern elongation from the Sun (22.5 [degrees]) on the evening of the 22nd, rendering the "elusive planet" not so elusive at all. The only trick to seeing it is knowing when to look. Mercury will be positioned above and to the right of Saturn on the evening of May 6 and will appear nearly one full magnitude brighter....
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