For North Americans, this is an eye-catching sight, visible even from brightly lit cities.

Venus reaches its greatest western elongation (46°) from the Sun at midnight EDT. Earth's sister planet is now visible in the ...

Earth’s sister planet reaches greatest western elongation and dichotomy as the waxing Moon slides along the ecliptic in the ...

which will appear about 17 degrees (a bit more than "one and half fists") above the horizon. If you find the moon, Venus will be situated just about four degrees to above it. Try using binoculars ...

Since March, Venus has been visible in the morning sky, just east of sunrise. But the planet's greatest elongation, when it ...

The Moon’s illumination is given at 12 ... Nonetheless, Mercury still looks smaller because it is less than half the diameter of Venus, which is roughly Earth’s size. Although no one could ...

Venus and the moon will be about one degree ... The Sun always illuminates half of the Moon while the other half remains dark, but how much we are able to see of that illuminated half changes ...

I managed to take a half-dozen pictures before clouds engulfed ... view to the northwest to see the June 19 crescent moon in Gemini. Venus and Mars will also be nearby. The moon will be just ...

The two planets will be closest around midnight, when they will be half a degree apart ... On the first official day of summer, Venus, Mars and the Moon will form a triangle in the night sky.