The Sky This Week from July 4 to 11: Celebrate with fireworks

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, July 4Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation (26°) from the Sun at 1 A.M. EDT this morning. You can view the tiny planet in the evening sky, still standing 8° high in the west 40 minutes after sunset and glowing at magnitude 0.5Continue reading “The Sky This Week from July 4 to 11: Celebrate with fireworks”
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