Enzo wrote:Just how bright can Mercury get?
I've seen it in the evening, and it struck me as brigher than almost any star, although I didn't take any measurements :P It's funny, when scanning the open sky, I would often miss it, but when looking right at the correct part of the sky, it would suddenly pop into view and be so obvious it was hard to believe I couldn't see it before. When I've seen it, the sun was down but the sky was still mostly blue, and I could see Mercury before the stars, and it seemed pretty bright, but again, I had to be looking in the right place before I could see it - just scanning the skies didn't work too well. . .