Venus and Jupiter Meet in the Twilight (27, 28 August 2016)
If you have been watching the western twilight over the past week or so you will have seen two bright dots coming closer together. These are Venus and Jupiter, and on Saturday and Sunday they meet in the most awesome event of the current Planet Dance.
With speedy Mercury nearby, the planetary pair form a long pointy triangle. On Saturday and Sunday Venus and Jupiter will be around a lunar diameter apart (33 arc minute and 28 arc minutes respectively, if you want to get technical). That’s about half a finger-width (when you hold your finger out at arms length).
That means not only will they be together in binocular fields (and Mercury, just), but they will be together in wide field telescope eyepieces. You should be able to see the bands on Jupiter (just) and the Galilean Moons together with Venus. Venus will be painfully bright in a telescope eyepiece, and is featureless gibbous shape, but seeing the two planets together will be great. The second brightest star in Virgo, Zavijava, should also be visible in telescope eyepieces.
While the three planets are visible in the western sky from half an hour after local sunset to at least and hour and a half after sunset, the best time to look is between 45 minutes to an hour after local sunset. This is when the sky is dark enough to see all three easily, but there is still plenty of twilight colour to make the sky dramatic, and the planets are hight enough above the horizon that most normal horizon clutter doesn’t get in the way.
Venus and Jupiter are the brightest objects in the sky once the sun has set, and Mercury is the third brightest object above the western horizon just near Venus and Jupiter, so spotting the trio should be easy.
Even if there is a bit of cloud about, pop out now and again to see if you can get a glimpse of the wonderful line-up.
Source: http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2016/08/venus-and-jupiter-meet-in-twilight-27.html
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