Planetary Alignment
Last night, I was lucky and was able to photograph three of the five naked-eye planets that can be seen in the night sky right now. At the time of the photo, Venus was close to the horizon, while Jupiter and Mars were shining high above. At that time, Saturn and Mercury had already set.
Currently, there is a big hype about seven planets being visible at night. And yes, while it’s true that seven planets are visible in the night sky right now, it is also true that you can’t see all of them with the naked eye, and you can’t see all of them at the same time.
This means that it will be very difficult to spot Mercury and Saturn because they are not very bright and are very close to the western horizon, so they get easily obscured by haze on the horizon and the evening twilight. Uranus and Neptune, on the other hand, can only be seen with optical aids (binoculars or a small telescope). That leaves the three brightest planets, Venus, Jupiter and Mars, spread out gracefully along the ecliptic.
