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Cairo – Samia Sayed – The weekend next Sunday provides a wonderful opportunity to see two planets of the solar system line up in the night sky, according to the Spaces.
Venus and Saturn will be conjunct, meaning they will share the same correct ascendant – the equivalent of longitude in the celestial sphere, and soon after the two planets will approach each other in the sky, an event known as an appulse.
The conjunction of Venus and Saturn will take place on Sunday, January 22, and according to In-the-Sky.org, the pair should become visible from New York City around 5:18 p.m., just as it gets dark.
And if you don’t have good viewing conditions in your area, you can still catch the event live thanks to the free webcast hosted by the Virtual Telescope Project, which will go live on Sunday, January 22 at 11:00 a.m. EST.
In the night sky, the pair will also be just eight degrees below the moon on Sunday evening — just less than the width of your clenched fist at arm’s length when lifted up into the sky. Venus should appear as a bright but small, featureless disk of about -3.9 magnitude, indicating an object. Fairly bright, Venus will continue to rise in the night sky over the coming months and will get brighter throughout the spring.
Meanwhile, Saturn will be noticeably less bright on Sunday at +0.8 magnitude, but its rings should be visible even with a low-power telescope or binoculars. Saturn is moving in the opposite direction like Venus, and is currently sinking lower in the sky each night.
And by February 16, Saturn will be completely undetectable because it is entering a solar conjunction, which means it will be on the opposite side of Earth from the sun and will be blocked from view by the light of our star.
And although Venus and Saturn will appear close together in the sky from our vantage point on Earth on Sunday, the pair will actually still be separated by a great distance. While their positions change relative to each other as they orbit our star.
Saturn is currently about 914 million miles (1.4 billion km) from the sun, while Venus is 68 million miles (109 million km) away, according to NASA.