PLANETARY ALIGNMENT

For several weeks now, and for about three weeks to come, a planetary alignment of five planets should be visible in the eastern sky each morning between about 4:00 am and 6:00 am. One should be able to see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter rising in a line from center to right in your eastern night sky. Maddeningly, we have had overcast or hazy skies for this entire period here in t.o.

Has anyone else seen this yet? Is it obvious, or hard to pick out? (On earth, stars twinkle because we have a dense, moist atmosphere overhead. Planets don't twinkle. Stars are very, very far away, and give off their own light. Planets are [relatively] near by, and are reflecting the light of our nearby star, the sun. If you were on the top one of the gigantic volcanoes on Mars, for example, with no atmosphere above you at all, the stars would not twinkle. Even at lower elevations, with nothing but a thin, dry atmosphere overhead, the stars you would see would not twinkle.)

Anyone?