All Planets Panorama 2025

From the photographer: “In the last week of February 2025, all 7 major planets (and the 8th, ours) were visible simultaneously in the evening twilight.

I was able to photograph this panorama of all planets from near Kirazli village, about 20 km south of Bursa. The elevation was 1180 meters, which helped find clear skies overhead and a relatively transparent horizon in the south and west. The horizon was not totally clear, there was a far away band of approaching clouds in the west, but they did not pose any problem for Saturn and Mercury shining low in the west.

Mercury is the lowest in the sky, shining at mag. -1.2, with Saturn is less than 2 degrees away, shining at +1.2. Venus is high in the west and distinctively north of the Zodiacal Light, blazing at -4.6. Jupiter is high in the south, about 6 degrees above Aldebaran in Taurus, shining at mag. -2.4. And Mars shines not far from Gemini’s Castor and Pollux, a red beacon at mag. -0.4.

There are two more planets in the panorama, Uranus in western Taurus, few degrees away from Pleiades like an extra +5.7-magnitude star, and Neptune in western Pisces at mag. +7.9. Uranus might have been visible to unaided eyes in the relatively dark skies (which I did not try), while Neptune in brighter twilight surely needs binoculars. Check out the annotated version, which mark these two planets and the other five.”