Venus will reach its highest point in the sky during its morning appearance in 2022 with sunrise on Monday 28 February shining at an altitude of 33 degrees towards the southeast horizon and is easily visible with the naked eye.
The planet Venus moved to the dawn sky in early January 2022, and when it is currently observed with a telescope, its disk will now appear illuminated by 37% with sunlight.
And the phases of Venus can be accurately determined, when the planet is in the evening sky and passes between the Earth and the sun – as happened on January 9 last – the distance between Earth and Venus was decreasing, so the internal pairing occurs, but the size of the apparent pinch is large because it was close to our planet.
According to the Jeddah Astronomical Society, now that Venus passes between us and the sun and the distance between the Earth and Venus increases, the planet’s disk has increased in brightness, but the size of its apparent disk is diminishing as a result of its distance from us.
By October the disk of Venus will be 100% sunlit and by that time – the planet will be five times farther from Earth than now, and it will be less bright.
It is worth noting that in ancient times, the Greeks called Venus (Hesperus) when it was observed in the evening sky, and (Vesporus) when it was seen in the dawn sky, and it is not known if they knew that they were one body or not.
