Use Venus to find Mercury tomorrow morning...
Use Venus to find Mercury tomorrow morning about 6:15. Mercury is only 4 degrees (the width of two fingers held at arm’s length)to the left of Venus. They are very bright near the horizon. Venus is brilliant, but Mercury is only 1/100th as bright. You will need binoculars to see Mercury.
With a telescope, Venus will appear nearly full because it is on the far side of the sun, but Mercury is on the near side and will appear as a crescent.
Source: John Mosley, Griffith Observatory
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