It looks like 2023 is going to be an exceptional year to watch Venusit will be like a star in the night sky this year, and Venus is now in our southwestern sky for regarding two hours following sunset, and it appears every night in its wonderful performance.
According to “Space”, this planet, which is seen during the evening twilight period, appears astonishingly bright to the naked eye, and even more so in binoculars, and for those who observe it from week to week in telescopes, it is ever-changing and fascinating.
A fairly close conjunction between Venus and ringed Saturn will occur today, and then, on the evening of March 1, Venus and Jupiter will make another celestial rendezvous, only half a degree away, side by side, both appearing to Venus to Jupiter’s right.
A 2.5-day crescent moon will form a stunning narrow isosceles triangle less than a week early, with Jupiter and the moon just 1.5 degrees apart, while Venus lies 7 degrees below both.
It often says many books astronomy That Venus is often out of sight by around midnight makes it very hard to believe that Venus will be out until 11:45 p.m. DST during this time frame coming in mid-May.
And look for bright Venus below Gemini’s “twin stars,” Castor and Pollux, on May 21. To the upper left of the Gemini twins will be Mars, and far to the lower right of Venus will be a slender crescent. The next night, the Moon will have approached Venus.
Also, on June 4, it reached its maximum eastern elongation, and will then be 45 degrees from the Sun, one-eighth of the way around the ecliptic, and at magnitude -4.3 the planet will certainly be striking, almost twice as bright as it appears to us now.
And the time when Venus reaches the peak of its great brilliance halfway between its greatest elongation and conjunction with the sun comes on July 7 when it reaches a magnitude of -4.7, and Venus will quickly slide into the solar flare, appearing only two hours following the sun and shortly before the end of twilight evening tonight.
But the “Venus Show” will not end, for the repeat show begins in mid-August, this time in the morning sky and as the sequence of events reverses, reaching a climax of brilliance once more on September 19, glowing like a beacon in the dawning eastern sky, in addition to also appearing in November. And other times until the end of the year.
