Five planets, all lighting up the August evening sky together, were imaged during a short spell in early evening on Sunday. Venus, Mercury and Jupiter are quite low in the west (though Mercury is almost as high as it can get after sunset), while Mars and Saturn decorate Scorpius overhead.

In these images at f/30 with a 200mm Newtonian, north is up, the Sun is illuminating them from the right (to varying degrees), and all at the same scale.

Rocky Mercury doesn't show much in the way of features, Venus was low, fuzzy and is always cloudy, Mars' icy north polar hood is now very prominent and bright white, Jupiter's getting low and quite fuzzy but is still accompanied by two moons, and Saturn shows a nice bit of shadow plus the polar hexagon.