THIS MONTH’S PLANETS
PLANET OF THE MONTH
his month will be great if you want to see Mercury. A surprising number of amateur astronomers have never seen it, leading to it being called ‘elusive’ and ‘challenging’. Being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury rarely strays far from it in the sky, so is only visible for brief periods before sunrise or after sunset. If you look at the right time, are patient and know what to look for, Mercury is actually an easy naked-eye object – not as
