On the morning of June 3 , look to the East . Just before sunrise , you will get six out of seven planets nicely aligned . Venus will be a bit too penny-pinching to the Sun to be seeable before the Sun appear . The coalition will give you gravid views in the order Jupiter , Mercury , Uranus , Mars , Neptune , and Saturn . And for good measure , you will be capture a Moon crescent too , just near Mars in the sky .
Uranus and Neptune ca n’t be see with the naked eye so you will need a telescope or high - powered binoculars for that . If you care more for the front of satellite than their arbitraryalignment , then any day is now dear to see Venus too before it get down too close to the Sun . But travel rapidly ! If you look tomorrow or the day after , the order will be more or less switched . Mercury is presently not very near the Sun , and while itsmaximum elongationis months off , the littlest major planet is clearly visible .
Since we are approaching thesummer solstice , there are places in the Northern Hemisphere where dawn will be in the middle of the night ( maybe do not go to sleep ? ) or will call for a very former acclivity . So do not worry if you miss this one . erratic conjunction of this type are not extremely rare .
The eight planet all orbit the same airplane in the Solar System ( plus or minus a handful of academic degree ) , so they often end up in this variety of alignment . They do eye socket at dissimilar speeds though , so there is the occasional switch between who ’s on one side of the Sun or who ’s on the other . Alignments of three or four planets are fairly common .
Six is a spot rarer , but you could have multiple day in a calendar year where at least six are visible in the night sky . Venus and Mercury move pretty quickly around the Sun , so they do get around again . Although the other planets might have stretched to the other side of the celestial vault by then , it is a long electric arc that get in touch the planets .
If you are not especially amorning someone , worry not . A seven - satellite alignment is come next year , well seen inlate February 2025after sundown !
