astro-angel in need of help!!

[astro-angel]

Heya guys and girls,:hi: don't know if anyone can help i was chatting with an astronomy friend of mine and he mentioned a planetry allingnment with mars, saturn, and mercury on the 28, 29 & 30th 0f this month what would be the best veiwing times? were located on the mid north coast and would love to see this awesome event so some location help would be appreciated as well. Thanks in advance and happy astroing... astro-angel

[davidpretorius]

being mercury, it will be pretty close to sunset

[Dennis]

Hi Astro-angel

Here is a cropped screen capture from the planetarium program Starry Night Pro 5. The view is looking NW from Brisbane at 6:00pm on Wednesday 28th June.

Hope everyone has clear skies for this one!

Cheers

Dennis

[CoombellKid]

Mercury has benn making a fine sight in the early evenings, it's a good
time to observe it through a scope at present, albeit a western elongation
is susposed to be better. Still it has been a trill to see all three sitting
above the western horizon at present. I did manage to nab Mars and Saturn
in the FOV of my 20mm t5 on the 17/06/06... that was a nice sight,
however mercury is too far away to collect in the Same FOV

regards,CS

Rob

[CoombellKid]

Also it's not too often we get to observe 4 planets naked eye in the sky at once : )

regards,CS

Rob