Venus in late April 2020 reaches the height of its luminosity as the “evening star” during this year, and is easily observed towards the western horizon with the naked eye beginning Monday, shortly after sunset, as it will appear to the naked eye as a bright piece of diamond hanging in the sky.
It is known that Venus is always classified as the third brightest body after the sun and the moon, but today Monday it will surpass itself as it will be brighter by nearly 3 times in what is called (the greatest amount of illumination), and a telescope is needed to see the planet’s disk and its changing phases which are An ideal opportunity for photography .
And the astronomical society in Jeddah revealed in a report that it happens (the greatest amount of illumination) of the flower about 36 days after the planet reached the maximum elongation (evening) that occurred on (24 March 2020), and about 36 days before the flower reaches the lower conjugation in (June 3, 2020).
Ironically, Venus is at its brightest when its disk is only 25% illuminated by sunlight and not fully lit, and the reason is that the planet is closer to Earth as it is today.
Venus has decorated the evening sky since August 14, 2019, and will leave it on June 3, 2020. But during the coming days at dusk and early in the evening the planet glistens in its best glow in the sky.
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