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2021: June – August, Mars Joins Venus

Author
Jeffrey L Hunt
Published
Sun 23 May 2021
Episode Link
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffrey-l-hunt/episodes/2021-June--August--Mars-Joins-Venus-esqevk

Still low in the sky during brighter twilight, brilliant Venus moves through Cancer and Leo.  Mars enters the scene (within 10°) as it moves toward its solar conjunction. As the ecliptic’s angle with the western horizon decreases, the Venusian setting time interval shrinks several minutes until late August.  Venus passes the Red Planet (July 12) and Regulus (July 21). A binocular is needed to make observations of conjunctions with the dimmer stars.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://whenthecurveslineup.com/2021/03/16/2021-june-august-mars-joins-venus/

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