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.
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