2019, November 12: Brilliant Venus shines from the southwest about 45 minutes after sunset.

Brilliant Venus shines in the southwestern sky about forty minutes after sunset.  Look for it on the next clear evening.  The planet is emerging from its solar conjunction earlier in the year.  Watch Venus approach and pass bright Jupiter in less than two weeks.  The Venus-Jupiter conjunction occurs on November 24, 2019.

Read more about Venus as an Evening Star at these links:

• 2019-2020: Venus as an Evening Star
• 2019, November 24:  A Venus-Jupiter Conjunction
• 2019, November 28:  A Close Venus – Moon Conjunction
• 2019, December 10:  A Venus-Saturn Conjunction