Follow the Crescent Moon to Spot Elusive Mercury Friday Evening

In fact, Mercury has acquired the branding of "the elusive planet." One handbook uses the analogy that Mercury "stays close to the sun like a child clinging to its mother's apron strings." Other books point out that legendary Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus — the man who proved that all of the planets revolve around the sun and not around the Earth — never saw Mercury in all of his life. In a telescope, Mercury appears as a gibbous disc and is shining at a brilliant magnitude o