1 New Moon at 6:26 UT. Start of lunation 1228. 2 Mercury at superior conjunction with the Sun at 23h UT. The innermost planet passes into the evening sky. • Mercury (Wikipedia) 5 Mars 0.3° SE of Saturn at 2h UT (53° from Sun, morning sky). Mags. 1.0 and 0.9. Visible in a telescope at