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      • The volcanic, hellish planet will shine serenely at dusk at its highest altitude in our night sky, starting Sunday (Dec. 5). It's so bright, at magnitude -4.4, it will easily be visible to the naked eye and outshine everything around it but the moon.
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  1. Sky map showing the night sky tonight from any location. What planets are visible tonight? Where is Mars, Saturn or Venus? What is the bright star in the sky?

    • 2021–2022 Evening Apparition of Venus
    • Altitude of Venus at Sunset
    • Observing Venus
    • The Inclination of The Ecliptic to The Horizon
    • The Optimum Time For An Apparition of Venus
    • Venus's Position
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    The table below lists the altitude of Venus at sunset over the course of its the apparition. All times are given in Virginia Beach local time.

    A graph of the angular separation of Venus from the Sun around the time of greatest elongation is available here.

    Venus's orbit lies closer to the Sun than the Earth's, meaning it always appears close to the Sun and is lost in the Sun's glare much of the time. It is observable for a few months each time it reaches greatest separation from the Sun – moments referred to as greatest elongation. On these occasions, Venus is so bright and conspicuous that it become...

    At all times, Venus lies close to a line across the sky called the ecliptic, which is shown in yellow in the planetarium above. This line traces the path that the Sun takes through the zodiacal constellations every year, and shows the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Since all the planets circle the Sun in almost exactly the same plane, i...

    For this reason, the day when Venus reaches its widest separation from the Sun (greatest elongation) is not necessarily the same day when it appears highest in the sky at sunset. Venus typically appears highest in the sky a few days or weeks closer to the spring equinox than the moment of greatest elongation. The inclination of the ecliptic plane t...

    The position of Venus when it reaches its highest point will be: The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

    The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemerispublished by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.

  2. Dec 5, 2021 · The volcanic, hellish planet will shine serenely at dusk at its highest altitude in our night sky, starting Sunday (Dec. 5). It's so bright, at magnitude -4.4, it will easily be visible to the...

  3. 1 day ago · The moon will hang close to Mercury on November 3, and it’ll float close to Venus on November 4. Venus will continue to ascend and become a dazzling evening star through the end of the year.

  4. Dec 3, 2021 · Venus will reach its greatest brightness in its 2021–2022 evening apparition. It will be shining brightly at mag -4.7. From Virginia Beach , this apparition will not be one of the most prominent but , reaching a peak altitude of 22° above the horizon at sunset on 3 Dec 2021.

  5. Oct 28, 2021 · Nov. 7 — Venus and the crescent moon will make for an eye-catching sight in the southwest sky right after sunset. Venus will shine to the upper left of the slender sliver of the moon. You...

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  7. Describes the 2021-2022 evening apparition of the planet Venus, with star maps showing its path through the zodiac constellations

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