Glenn Chaple's observing basics: Jealous Copernicus
March 2005: Circle Friday, March 11 on your Deep Space Mysteries 2005 calendar.
Contributed by Glenn Chaple
Published:
March 1, 2005
| Circle Friday, March 11 on your Deep Space Mysteries 2005 calendar. On that date, you'll have a great opportunity to do something even the famous Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus never did: visually capture the elusive planet Mercury. Even during elongations — those infrequent occasions when the planet's orbital motion carries it away from the Sun — Mercury can play hard-to-get in the twilight glow. |
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