{"id":540197,"date":"2023-07-06T23:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/venus-en-su-punto-mas-brillante-esta-semana-a-simple-vista-eacr\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T23:19:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:19:16","slug":"venus-at-its-brightest-and-best-this-week-with-your-naked-eyes-eacr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/en\/venus-at-its-brightest-and-best-this-week-with-your-naked-eyes-eacr\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus At Its Brightest And Best This Week With Your Naked Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Anyone who ever looks at the night sky will know that the planet Venus has been the brightest object for most of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That is about to end, with Earth\u2019s hotter sister planet now on the wane. In mid-August it will be lost in the sun\u2019s glare only to emerge into the pre-dawn sky in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, before it fades from view the \u201cEvening Star\u201d has a fantastic finale to perform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maximum Brilliance Explained<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This Friday, July 7 will see Venus at its \u201cmaximum brilliance.\u201d It will effectively be super-bright all weekend and for a few nights <\/a>beyond, but Friday sees the planet reach a brilliant magnitude of -4.7 while as high above the western horizon as it\u2019s possible to see at this moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outer planets are at their brightest to us on Earth as their annual opposition\u2014the moment when Earth is between the sun and the planet. That\u2019s when a planet\u2019s disk is 100% illuminated as seen from Earth. That\u2019s not the case with Venus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Venus is currently very close to Earth, it\u2019s becoming a slim crescent as it slips into the sun\u2019s glare. In fact, this Friday the planet is only a 26% illuminated crescent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its brightness comes from the fact that it\u2019s cloaked in many layers of highly reflective sulfuric acid clouds, with the uptick caused by it getting closer and closer to Earth. Astronomers call this albedo\u2014and Venus has the highest albedo of any planet in the solar system, reflecting between 75-84% of sunlight, according to Big Think<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watching Venus at its Brightest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All you need to do is to go outside just after sunset on Friday\u2014or through the weekend\u2014and look to the western horizon to see Venus shining very brightly. You don\u2019t need binoculars or a telescope, just your own naked eyes. As the twilight deepends, Venus will become more obvious and shine as brightly as it ever gets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it\u2019s cloudy, don\u2019t despair. The Virtual Telescope Project<\/a> will broadcast views of Venus at peak brilliance at 17:30 EDT (21:30 UTC) on Friday, July 7. It uses two powerful 14-inch and 17-inch robotic telescopes based in Ceccano, Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the weeks after, Venus will rapidly drop from the evening sky, emerging in the morning sky in August\u2014and then quickly reach its maximum brilliance. For that, get your alarm set for the pre-dawn hours of September 19, 2023!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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