Venus will reach the most northerly point in its whole eight-year cycle, on the evening of Monday May 3 for America.

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Venus will reach the most northerly point in its whole eight-year cycle, on the evening of Monday May 3 for America.

The evening sky has changed –
We’ve succeeded in moving from rural Dorset, where this was the view out of our window –

One of the benefits of a year when Venus is heading for its northernmost point in the eight-year cycle is that on the way it visits the most famous of star clusters.
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