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Departing Jupiter and Saturn are met by arriving Mercury, which is headed in the other direction towards eastern elongation on Jan 23. Jupiter (at mag -1.9) was the only planet that could be seen by eye in the twilight. Mercury (mag -0.9) was easily spotted in 7x35 binoculars despite its low altitude of <3°. Saturn (mag 0.6) was plain hard to spot in the binocs and ditto in the photos I took--I felt I had to label the photo here so you could locate it while not mistaking it for Mercury, which was farther to the lower left, 1.5 magnitudes brighter, and distinctly easier to see despite being nearer the horizon in brighter glare.
Astro data:
Sunset: 5:35pm MST
Photo taken: 6:15pm
Planets set: 6:30pm (Mercury first) -> 6:45pm (Jupiter last)
Night begins: 7:07pm
Photo data:
Panasonic GX8, Lumix 100-300mm lens @ 100mm
f/4, 1/5 sec, ISO 200
Photographer's website:
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