If you didn’t catch the five bright planets simultaneously in morning twilight in June 2022, you'll have another chance in December, this time in evening twilight. Venus and Mercury
will then be visible only low in bright twilight, so binoculars will make the search easier. The Sky Calendar for December will have many diagrams helpful for locating the two inner planets soon after sunset. Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars will be easy for unaided eye. Uranus and Neptune will be available for binoculars and telescopes after twilight ends, bringing the total to all seven planets observable sometime within a one hour span from early dusk until nightfall.
Here is the evening mid-twilight chart for December 2022, when all five bright planets are visible for most of the month. See the December Sky Calendar for more information.
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