2022, May 4:  Morning Planets, Evening Moon, Disappearing Stars

May 4, 2022:  The bright morning planets, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn, are strung along the eastern sky.  Mercury and the waxing moon are in the west-northwestern sky after sundown.  The bright stars of winter are disappearing for the season.

2022, April 29:  Mercury – Pleiades Conjunction, Morning Planet Gems

April 29, 2022:  This evening, Mercury has a conjunction with the Pleiades star cluster.  In the eastern morning sky, four bright planets – Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and Saturn – stretch across the sky.