On Saturday 1 February, some of our BBC Weather Watchers reported these sightings of the crescent Moon and Venus close together. With the clearest skies in the south-east of the UK on Saturday, ...
Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a parade of planets in the post-sunset sky.
A remarkable sight will appear in the southwestern sky an hour after sunset Saturday evening when Venus appears very close to a thin crescent moon. This celestial phenomenon is called a conjunction, ...