Jeddah astronomer: Venus returns to the sky as the evening star

Citizen – Mohammed Daoud – Jeddah

Venus returns to the evening sky decorating the western horizon after sunset and moves through the darkness of the night under a shimmering appearance like the evening star, reaching its brightness in July 2021 (-3.9) , and is currently 200 times brighter than Mars, which is apparently nearby.

Decreasing illumination of Venus:

The head of the Jeddah Astronomical Society, engineer Majed Abu Zahira, explained that Venus will appear to the naked eye observer as a bright white point of light, and when he sees it through a medium telescope , he notices that his hump-stage disc is 88% illuminated by sunlight at present, and after the summer the illumination of its surface will dim. It will transform into a crescent moon in December with an increase in its apparent pinch size, and eventually be lost in the glare of the sun.

shines early at night:

He stressed that in general he will shine Planet Venus At its best in the night sky for the remainder of this year 2021, it will reach its maximum aspect ratio from the sun on October 29, 2021 and will be at its greatest brightness as an evening star.

Mars disappears in August:

Abu Zahira concluded by saying, as for Mars, although it is a theoretical night planet until October 2021, it is likely to disappear from view by August 2021, at which time we are wait for the glow of evening twilight to erase the red planet.

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