Mercury moves out of the evening sky this August on its way to a morning apparition. The innermost planet will reach inferior conjunction with the Sun on the 17th.

     Generally, Mercury is a decidedly difficult object to locate due to its proximity to the Sun. I have only been able to spot Mercury maybe five or six times in almost forty years of observing. Here, John Walker gives us a page that will calculate the upcoming alignments of Mercury.

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