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COPYRIGHT 2005 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
Mercury, shining at magnitude zero, can be seen shortly after sunset all month, albeit with some difficulty. To find the planet, use binoculars to locate Venus in the southwestern sky. Mercury is twenty-nine degrees to the lower far right of Venus on October 12. By month's end the two planets are four degrees closer to each other. The best chance to spot Mercury also comes at month's end, when it lies below and to the right of the star Antares, in the constellation Scorpius, the scorpion.
Venus glitters low in the southwestern sky...
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