Re: [Utah-astronomy] Obs Notes: Venus and Mercury at sunset 8-17 to 8-23

Watched Venus and Mercury on night of 8-17. Mercury not visible to naked-eye or in 10x50 binos. Mercury was visible about 1.1 degs from Venus in small refractor at 25x beginning at 8:44pm MDT, or about 22 minutes after local sunset. ZLM 12.7 MPSAS. At sunset tonight Mecury should be closer to Venus. - Kurt