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      • Like the moon, Venus will wax and wane in appearance from the Earth as its position shifts in relation to our planet and the sun. Its apparent size and magnitude changes, too: Venus as crescent seems larger and brighter than fuller incarnations because the planet is closer to Earth in its "sliver" phase.
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  1. Venus is visible by day, but may be hard to find. Mars can be seen for more than 9 hours during the late night/early morning and until sunrise. Jupiter is visible during most of the night, but it is best viewed in the early morning hours and until sunrise.

  2. Nov 25, 2011 · As Venus travels around the sun inside the Earth's orbit, it alternates regularly from evening to morning sky and back, spending about 9 1/2 months as an "evening star," and about the same...

  3. Sep 6, 2019 · Venus is closest to Earth when it's in its crescent phase, and it appears brightest when less than half of its face is illuminated. When it appears in the west as the evening star, it reaches its maximum brightness a few days after its maximum elongation from the sun.

  4. From Earth, Venus is the brightest object in the night sky after our own Moon. The ancients, therefore, gave it great importance in their cultures, even thinking it was two objects: a morning star and an evening star.

  5. Apr 24, 2017 · Look for Venus in the west just after sunset or in the east just before sunrise, depending on the stage of the planet's cycle. Its summoning of night or day, respectively, explains its longstanding–and, considering it is a planet, inaccurate–monikers of "Evening Star" or "Morning Star."

  6. Jan 7, 2021 · The best time to observe any planets is when it is close to us on Earth. Venus is the second closest planet to the Sun, while Earth is in the third position. This configuration makes it impossible to see Venus through a reflecting or a refracting telescope in the middle of the night.

  7. Oct 6, 2020 · You can only see Venus just before sunrise or just after sunset, when it is in a part of its orbit that is just barely visible from Earth’s night side. A similar situation makes Mercury visible only during these times also.

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