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In more than 10 years, this is the first time you will have the rare opportunity to see five planets come together in a night sky simultaneously. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are the only planets in our solar system that can be viewed with naked eye. These five planets are said to line up across the sky every night before dawn until 20^th February. "Not many people have seen all five naked [eye] planets and at the same time," said Randy Attwood, executive director of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. "Usually, they're visible at different times of the night." He added that most of the time, some of these planets may not even be visible, as reported by New York Times.

Dr. Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society said that it would not be easy to spot Mercury as it is the closest to the horizon. "There will be a dance of the planets, and now is the time to get out and have a look," said Dr. Massey. "It will be well worth getting up for. "People will struggle to see Mercury, it will probably just look like a star but if we get good weather we should be able to see Venus, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter well. But people should have a shot at seeing them altogether. "Venus will be very obvious in the south east and Saturn will be a little bit higher up to the right. Further over at due south, you'll see Mars and way beyond in the south east will be Jupiter. "They won't be in an exact straight line, because you virtually never get that in astronomy. They will be more scattered," says Telegraph

This rare spectacle can be seen between 20^th Jan and 20^th Feb but the peak viewing time is end of January until the end of first week of February, according to Sky & Telescope.