For the next week or so you can catch five planets: Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter, together in the sky before dawn. They’re not very close together, but today I tried a time lapse of Venus and Mercury rising before a very slender crescent Moon in the pre-dawn sky. Not perfect framing and bit too much light spill from Denver, but you do get to see them all (Venus is the brightest object, then Mercury rises along the same track toward the right of the frame)…