If you start checking Venus roughly monthly, you’ll soon see the gibbous phase develop into a “quarter Venus” as the planet catches up with Earth. In fact, it is gibbous in shape, like the moon will look a couple of weeks from now.
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If you have a small telescope to aim at Venus, you’ll notice that it is not quite a full disk. Love, war and the moon together on Saturday, February 21, 2015.// Courtesy of Jim Lattis, UW-Madison But Venus and Mars will be even closer together than on the previous night, and they’ll set just as early, so again, don’t delay. You probably won’t need binoculars to see it, and it will set much later than on Friday evening. All three objects will be within about 2 degrees of each other, which makes it one of the closer planetary groupings of the year.ĭon’t wait until too late to observe, because unless you have a very low western horizon and the sky is very clear, these objects will be too low to see by 7pm or shortly after.īy Saturday evening, about the same time, the crescent moon will have fattened up considerably and climbed much higher in the western sky. While Venus will be obvious, a pair of binoculars will be helpful in spotting the other two. And just to their right will be a very young crescent moon. As twilight deepens, expect to see Mars emerge, much dimmer than Venus. It will be unmistakable as the brightest celestial object there. On Friday evening, as the sky darkens after 6pm (CST) or so, look just south of west to see brilliant Venus. Love, war and the moon come together on Friday, February 20, 2015.// Courtesy of Jim Lattis, UW-Madison
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