Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury are are comfortably visible in the same field of view of a 55 mm lens now.  High clouds and haze unfortunately resulted in large halos around the bright planets.  On this evening, Venus shone at magnitude -3.99, Jupiter at magnitude -1.90, and Mercury at -0.23, which would make it the fourth brightest star in the night sky, just behind Alpha Centauri.  The separation between Mercury and Jupiter is 19°09'25".  Unannotated image.