Astro-Challenge: Nabbing Venus… at Inferior Conjunction

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Venus as seen on the morning of inferior conjunction January 11th from Rekyavik, Iceland. Created by the author using Stellarium

Residents of high northern latitudes can take heart this frigid January: this coming weekend offers a chance to replicate a unique astronomical sighting.

Veteran sky watcher Bob King recently wrote a post for Universe Today describing what observers can expect from the planet Venus for the last few weeks of this current evening apparition leading  up to Venus’s passage between the Earth and the Sun on February 11^th. (…)
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