Seeing as they're in the list, thought I'd try to see the conjuncting (??
) planets in daylight, just before the sun set. Used 4.5" f8 reflector & 21mm ep (47x). Venus was easy to find naked-eye. Through the scope it was brilliant, a nice, miniature 'half-moon' (approx quarter phase), shimmering a little in the seeing but some nice stable glimpses. Using Venus as a guide, scanned up towards Mars (no GO-TO) & panned around till I found it. Tiny bright ball with a pale orange cast. Then went for Saturn - found it easily, just a pale ghost, but nonetheless the 'skewered-disk' was easy to make out. Not as bright as I thought it would be.
Didn't go for Mercury (too much sky to pan, brighter sky, sun still there!).
Cheers -