Mercury has been slowly creeping out of bright twilight for several weeks, and now is finally visible to the unaided eye if you locate it with binoculars first.  Nevertheless, I felt I had to zoom in with a 200 mm lens to catch it, so there is no context of other stars to provide perspective.  Here Mercury is magnitude -0.42 and subtends an angle of 5.51".  Even though we don't see any stars in this view, Mercury is in southern Ophiuchus, a little less than 2° from θ Ophiuchi, which is to the upper left of Mercury.