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Tonight (19:23:00hr on 21-12-21) is special for those who like looking at the night sky. Look at the picture below (a screenshot of ‘Stellarium’, from my location Down-under), we expect to see 5 planets of the Solar system in alignment in the western sky. Best time to see for my location (in QLD AUS) is about 19:23 hr. Your locations if different will have a different time.

Image credit ‘Stellarium’ (a free open-source software)

You can see Jupiter the bright planet in the West, about 30 degrees up from the horizon. Saturn is a smaller and a little lower to the left. Venus is about as bright as Jupiter, a little lower to the left again. Mercury is very faint and just above the horizon - if it is not flushed out by street lights or blocked out by tall buildings. A straight line alignment can be seen very clearly.

Did I say 5 planets? Yes! But sorry, there is no prize for spotting the other planet in the picture ;-)

Worth looking up the Western sky, don't you think?

Note. Stellarium is a free open source software available for Linux and WIndows. (For Mac use Linux.)

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