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Venus and Saturn meet in the morning

Mars is our only easy-to-see evening planet during February and March, while the morning sky will be the domain of Venus, Jupiter and Saturn — all of them in a line — and, at the end of March, Mercury.

Starting with (about magnitude –1 and 5.5" wide, mid-February), the tiny planet hugs the western evening horizon during February and will be very hard

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