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Best time to see seven planets align this weekend during rare event

This weekend, seven planets will line up in what astronomers call a 'planetary parade'.

Anyone who looks to the sky in the early morning will get to experience the rare sighting, weather permitting of course.

The divine event will see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus align for the fist time in 18 years.

According to experts, the best time to look up will be about thirty minutes before sunrise, from Friday June 24 to Monday June 27.

Five of the planets – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn – will be visible to the naked eye on Friday, reports Wales Online.

The remaining two – Uranus and Neptune – will be too dim to see unaided, but you could spot them with binoculars or a telescope by around June 27.

The seven planets have not appeared in the same line across the horizon since December 2004.

Astronomer and founder of Stargazing London, Tom Kerss, told the Sun: "It's well worth setting an early alarm and peering out from your garden, or any south/east-facing window or balcony available to you.

"The planets are easy to pick out even in the relatively light summer sky. Unlike stars, they don't appear to twinkle, and Mars is noticeably orange, whereas Saturn is faintly golden."

The news brought the poet out in the twitter account of NASA in the US.

It read: "Planets align. It’s fine. What is time? Does that even rhyme? Look up starting tonight to see Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn spread out and appear to line up in the sky. The crescent moon joins them on June 23."

As NASA points out, this alignment is even more special due to another sighting which is set to take place and the waning crescent Moon is set to be visible in between Venus and Mars. However, the moon won't appear in alignment with the planets.

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