Tonight: Mercury is now 1.1° above Venus. Look for Venus and Mercury low in the ESE 45 minutes before sunrise. Jupiter is 27° to the upper right of the pair. Mars and Saturn are visible in the evening sky. Saturn is found in the west 5° to the lower left of the star Regulus. Mars is very high in the sky forming an isosceles triangle with the tips of the horns of Taurus the Bull. Of the planets visible today, Mercury is the closest to us at 0.86 AU, Mars is 1 AU, Venus is 1.5 AU, Jupiter is 5.8 AU and Saturn is the most distant at 8.3 AU. One AU or astronomical unit is equal to the average distance from the Earth to the Sun - about 93 million miles

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