Mercury has finally climbed up out of the solar glare, which means that for the first time since last December, we have a terrestrial planet to observe.  Mars and Venus have been slowly going through superior conjunction and Mercury zipped through the same event in January, so now in mid-February we get our first taste of a planet in either the morning or evening twilight for the year.  Mercury is magnitude -1.04 on this evening and at 14°41'34" elongation from the Sun.  Unannotated image.