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Living in the woods, we don't see Mercury very often. It's always close to the sun, and so it only appears sometimes in morning or evening twilight and never gets high enough in the sky to clear the firs around the house. So in general you have to wait for the right time and a certain clarity (in the sky) to see it with binoculars.
When you do spot it, it's gorgeous. A silvery, luminous fleck of light in the glare of the setting or rising sun. The Greeks called it Stilbon, "bright one," and they associated it in the morning with Apollo, the god of light and knowledge, and in the evening with Hermes.See the full content of this document
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Mercury a Perfectly Strange Planet
Hermes was the Greeks' version of the Romans' Mercury, who was said to have invented the lyre and was the god of travelers, treaties, commerce and thiev...
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