Venus

Evening Star

Earth’s twin

Evening starE 40.5°

The walk

Now

  1. IThe Light
  2. IITwo Lights
  3. ·Tonight

Cycle

  1. IIIThe World
  2. IVHidden Ground
  3. VThe Clock
  4. V·The Date

Names

  1. VIOldest Watching
  2. ·The Wanderers
  3. VIIShe Descends
  4. VIIIAphrodite
  5. XThe Year
  6. XILetters
  7. XIISoul Planet
  8. XIIISymbolic Sky
  9. XIVAttention
  10. XVAhead
  11. XVIReturn

Tonight

Find Venus tonight

What you are seeing now is sunlight on a lid. What kind of world that light comes from is the rest of the walk.

Evening star

Look west after sunset. She is the brightest thing that is not the Moon.

Looking-place · Austin, Texas · Keplerian estimate, civil noon UTC. Location is not read from the device.

From the Sun
E 40.5°
Brightness
−4.9
Lit
28%
Distance
0.443 AU

How far from the Sun, next 40 weeks

East of the Sun is evening; west is morning. The zero line is conjunction. She never strays more than about 47° from the Sun.

  • Greatest evening brilliancySep 28, 2026
  • Inferior conjunctionOct 23, 2026
  • Greatest morning brilliancyNov 20, 2026
  • Greatest morning elongationJan 3, 2027
  • Superior conjunctionAug 11, 2027