Venus is getting down very low to the pre-sunrise horizon.
And yet she will take a long time – till August – to reach, from our viewpoint, the far side of the Sun. Then, entering the evening sky and circling back toward us, Venus will be 34° out east of the Sun on the first day of 2020. That will be a Venus year of the almost symmetrical type. I plan to have a whole 2020 narrative of our sister planet in the next “Longer View” book, which I seem to be preparing as slowly as a planet orbits.
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Just a minor nit, but I think you meant “pre-sunrise horizon” in your opening sentence – yes?
I’ll look for Luna and Venus Wednesday on my morning jog but with 73% cloud cover I probably won’t see anything that close to the horizon. I did see a close pairing of Luna and Jupiter the other morning. I then tried to find Jupiter with the naked eye after sunrise but I couldn’t see it. Maybe I ‘ll see a daytime Jupiter when the moon passes Jupiter next month cuz Jupiter will be brighter as it approaches opposition.
Of course! – how could I not have seen that? – corrected now.