July 1, 2023: Mercury begins an evening appearance with superior conjunction at the sun. Brilliant Venus is in an interval of greatest brightness after sundown.
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Watching the Sun, Moon and Planets
July 1, 2023: Mercury begins an evening appearance with superior conjunction at the sun. Brilliant Venus is in an interval of greatest brightness after sundown.
Read moreJune 10, 2023: The Pleiades star cluster is making its first morning appearance. Venus continues to brighten in the western sky after sundown.
Read moreMay 21, 2023: Find Arcturus in the west before sunrise. After sunset, Venus, Mars, and the crescent moon are on exhibition.
Read moreMay 7, 2023: Before sunrise, the moon occults or eclipses the star Al Niyat, near Antares in Scorpius, across western North America. Venus steps into western Gemini this evening.
Read moreMay 6, 2023: The moon appears to move among the Scorpion’s bright stars. Saturn is visible before sunrise, while Venus and Mars shine from the west after sundown.
Read moreMay 5, 2023: The moon passes through Earth’s penumbra from the Eastern Hemisphere. Brilliant Venus, Mars, and Saturn are easy to locate in the sky.
Read moreMay 4, 2023: Saturn is visible before sunrise, while Jupiter and Mercury are in bright sunlight. The evening’s spectacle, Venus, and Mars are in the west after sundown.
Read moreMay 3, 2023: Brilliant Venus is in the western sky after sundown. See its phase through a telescope. The bright moon is near Spica.
Read moreMay 2, 2023: Venus sparkles in the western evening sky after sunset, along with a bright gibbous moon in the southeast.
Read moreMay 1, 2023: The bright gibbous moon is in the southeastern sky after nightfall. Venus and Mars appear in front of stars soon to disappear into bright evening twilight.
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