A photogenic grouping of four naked eye planets plus the last days of an old crescent moon greeted early risers or (as in my case) those pulling an all-nighter, on the past Saturday and Sunday mornings.
In the first photo brilliant Venus is to the uppermost right side. Above the Moon are Jupiter and dimmer Mars to its upper right. Mercury, to the lower left of the Moon is difficult to see in the first photo shows up a little better in the cropped second photo.
The next morning the moon slipped down a little lower and serves as a guide to the elusive innermost planet Mercury.
A bigger lens isolates the pair and makes them much easier to see.
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