On May 23, 11:45*am, "Nick Gardner"
wrote:
Venus (currently magnitude -4.0) will continue to dominate the western
evening sky right through the early to mid summer period before being lost
in the twilight glare by late August.

One to look out for is on the 15th June when Venus and the Moon (which will
be a 3 day old crescent) will form a nice pairing in the early evening sky
with Mars and Saturn further east completing a arc of the ecliptic.
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Nick
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http:\\www.ottervalley.co.uk

Venus is at greatest eastern elongation on 22 August (45°) which
should make it easiest to see but the altitude at sunset is becoming
very low due to the inclination of the ecliptic at sunset and the
inclination of Venus' orbit. So it won't be lost in the glare of the
sun so much as lost in the horizon murk. The sun itself will be well
to the west. There will only be a short period when Venus is
visible. By 9 October it sets at the same time as the sun though
still 28° to its east.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.