Venus visits the GAS GIANTS
As blazing Venus tracks across the sky at the beginning of 2019 it makes two close approaches to the planets Jupiter and Saturn. The first planetary pairing occurs on 22 January when Venus will be around 2.5° away from Jupiter in the predawn night sky. This has the potential to be a rather nice astrophotography subject – particularly over something like a glittering sea horizon – as the pair will be sitting in a brightly moonlit sky. Similarly on the 17, 18 and 19 February Venus – now much lower in the sky during the darkness preceding early morning twilight – will pass close to Saturn.