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Medicine Hat resident shares experience of viewing seven planets in evening sky. Courtesy/Kimberly Sibbald
ASTROLOGY

Seven planets visible with the naked eye from Medicine Hat

Mar 1, 2025 | 5:54 PM

Seven planets aligned in the night sky Friday evening, in an event that is known at a ‘planetary parade’ that NASA says won’t occur again until 2040.

READ: Rare ‘planetary parade’ occurs with seven planets in view from Medicine Hat

NASA says that while planet alignment itself isn’t unusual, what makes these events special is the opportunity to observe multiple planets simultaneously with the naked eye.

Kimberly Sibbald, a Medicine Hat resident, shared a photo taken Friday evening of the event.

Courtesy/Kimberly Sibbald

Sibbald said that she was able to capture five of the planets in a single image using a 14mm lens — Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, and Mercury.

She said that Saturn was well below the horizon at the time of the photo being taken. Mars was out of the frame and would have required a panoramic image.

Sibbald said that the waxing crescent moon hung right above the horizon.