Tag: mercury’s greatest elongation

• December’s Morning Mercury: The Smallest Planet’s Greatest Elongations

  Today, we are going to be looking at the planet Mercury. We’re going to start just a couple of days ago, when Mercury was at its greatest elongation. We’re coming back to sunrise on the 7th of December, when Mercury reached its greatest elongation. Thankfully, it will be close to this greatest elongation for a…

  Caoimhín de Bhailís

  December 9, 2025

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• Mercury: Forewarning Before its Greatest Elongation!

  Today we are going to take a quick look for the planet Mercury. In a recent video, I just about spotted Mercury just above the sunset towards the end of June. Now that we are into June, of course the sunset is going to be getting later, as late as it can get. That means…

  Caoimhín de Bhailís

  June 3, 2025

  Astronomy, Astronomy Video

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• Early Morning Planets: Better from Elsewhere

  Happy April Fool’s Day everyone, don’t worry I won’t be pulling any pranks. Today we are going to take a look at Mercury, Saturn and Venus in the morning. In a recent piece I mentioned that Mercury is coming to its greatest elongation and how that wouldn’t really be visible for us here in Ireland.…

  Caoimhín de Bhailís

  April 1, 2025

  Astronomy, Astronomy Video

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