Australian Sky & Telescope

Planets play hide and seek

(magnitude 0.0, diameter 7.5” on August 10) was at inferior conjunction (ie. between the Earth and the Sun) in late July. By the beginning of August it will have returned to our morning sky, but it will be very low in the east and well within the dawn glow. It won’t be around for long, either, reaching its highest point above the horizon on August 10 before

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