This weekend, watch as brilliant Venus passes Saturn.
Adding to this evening display is our nearest neighbor in space; an exceedingly narrow crescent moon will slide past the planet duo during Sunday and Monday evenings. You're most definitely going to need binoculars on Sunday to scan the bright twilight sky just a half-hour after sunset to initially catch a glimpse of the moon.
Venus should be easy enough to sight, but then there is the matter of catching Saturn as well as the sliver of the moon — just one day past new phase — which will be positioned at the end of a vertical line extending eight degrees below the two planets. Check it out against a darker west-southwest sky about an hour after sundown. You'll immediately notice that Venus has moved to a position about one degree to the upper left of Saturn.
If you don't have all the optics you need to get a good look at Venus, Saturn or anything else in the night sky, our guides for the
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