Today Venus will be at maximum eastern elongation, as high in the evening sky as it will appear for this current apparition. After today the planet will begin a slow slide back into the sunset, passing through inferior conjunction on August 15th and reappearing in the dawn during the first weeks of September.
Look for Venus to pass by the Beehive cluster around Jun 12th and have a close conjunction with Jupiter on a few evenings around Jun 30th.
Venus Events for 2015 |
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| Date UT | Date HST | Separation | |||
| Maximum Elongation | Jun 6 | 18:59UT | Jun 6 | 08:59HST | 45.4°E |
| Inferior Conjunction | Aug 15 | 19:19UT | Aug 15 | 09:19HST | |
| Maximum Elongation | Oct 26 | 06:59UT | Oct 25 | 20:59HST | 46.4°W |
| Source: NASA Sky Calendar | |||||
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