Giant Planets Brighten July

The night skies of this month would exhibit the exquisite elegance of planets and divulge congenial conundrums of our earth, asteroids, and strange stars that outline comely constellations. The elusive fleet-footed speedster planet Mercury would be merrily mingling with the stars that chart the constellations Cancer (crab) and Leo (lion) in the western sky after sundown. It would reach its greatest eastern elongation from the sun on July 22. It would offer the best moment to mark Mercury since it would climb to its highest point above the western horizon. It would be shining during the half-phase alias dichotomy on July 19. Since Mercury could be astounded in twilight, it would be difficult to notice it in its thin crescent face. Mercury's tricky trajectory would carry it with an orbital period of only 88 days close to the Sun. One day on Mercury would last, weirdly, 176 earth days. Thus it would be lost in the Sun's glare mostly.