Saturn and Venus passing eachother tonight?

Question

I saw on the news about something two planets moving past eachother and tonight it can be seen in the sky, where can I see it and what time?

Answer 1

Only apparently! ~
They are still as far apart as ever. ;-)

Answer 2

You are correct. If you look for Venus in the western sky just after sunset, you will see a small "star" just above it (42 arcminutes, I believe). That "star" is not a star at all, but the planet Saturn, which is of course a very long way away from Venus (as Mr Heinz points out), but still very close from our viewpoint (astronomers call this "in conjunction"). This condition will still be present tomorrow evening, but the two planets will tend to separate (again, as we see them) on subsequent nights. If you think about it, you can picture Venus swinging around the sun toward us as Saturn passes behind it on the far side of the Sun. With a low power eyepiece on a decent telescope, you should be able to see both planets at once in the eyepiece (or in binoculars). Enjoy.

Answer 3

Sorry, but you must have misunderstood. There are no planets that will be aligned as you describe tonight or any time soon. The only visible planet tonight will be Jupiter, at about 10:00 pm on the west coast. Uranus and Pluto are in the sky too, but neither are naked-eye objects.

Answer 4

Look to the south west somewhere near where the sun tracked across the sky.

Answer 5

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