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Brilliant Venus shines from the western sky this evening. Tonight it reaches its maximum setting interval after sunset. — 2 hours, 40 minutes — for this evening appearance. Watch Venus this month pass the Gemini Twins and move past the Beehive star cluster.
For more about the bright evening planets, see these articles:
- 2018: Five Planets Visible at Once
- 2018, Summer: Evening Planet Parade: Five Bright Planets Visible During One Evening
- 2018: Venus the Evening Star
- 2017-2019: Mars Observing Year with a Perihelic Opposition, July 27, 2018
- 2018: Mars Perihelic Opposition
- 2017-2018: Jupiter’s Year in the Claws of the Scorpion, A Triple Conjunction
- 2018: Three Planets at Opposition in 79 days
- 2018: Saturn with the Teapot