But my attempts to photograph it have failed completely.
Hanging low over the horizon in the western sky.
Arneb wrote:Not easy to call. My Sky map shows Mercury barely above the horizon at sunset in Singapore
Arneb wrote: but I doubt it would be visible through a soupy horizon. Mercury is not very bright under the best of virwing conditions (and certainly not under a tropical sky at sea level). Mars and Venus, OTOH, form a nice pair in the Western evening sky, but at sunset, they are still high in the sky, at about 45° above the horizon. Two relatively bright stars, Castor and Pollux, are in the vicinity, but then you should see two points of light, not one.
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