Planets of the Month: February 2022

Mercury is visible at dawn all month, about 15 degrees to the lower left of Venus.
Venus is at it best during this morning visibility. It rises before 5 am and is well up by the tie dawn starts. It starts the month as a beautiful, large crescent that is easily visible in binoculars. It ends the month as a thick, smaller crescent. It is visible during the daytime if the sky is very clear and you know where to look, for example at 10 am 40 degrees high straight south.
This month has NO New Moon. The Moon can be seen every day of the month, although on the 1st one needs binoculars to see the slim crescent at dusk. The next evening it will be close to Jupiter.
Mars is not far from Venus all month, 9 degrees at the beginning of February and 5 degrees at the end. Even in March it will remain within 6 degrees of Venus. During both months, the planetary pair will move by about 50 degrees next to each other through Sagittarius and Capricornus.
Jupiter leaves the evening sky on the 19th.
Saturn is not visible all month.
Uranus is transiting 70 degrees high around sunset and thus well visible in Aries, perhaps even with naked eyes.

Neptune leaves the evening sky just like Jupiter. Jupiter will pass it on April 12 very narrowly but difficult to observe. This happens once every 13 years.