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You’ll see the Moon and Venus at their closest points from each other at about 5:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, 6:30 p.m. in the Mountain zone around Colorado Springs, Colorado, 7:30 p.m. in the Central zone surrounding Austin, Texas, and in the Eastern zone around Boston, Massachusetts, at 8:30 p.m.
The Moon is crescent shaped during this night event, and the pair will appear extraordinarily bright especially for skywatchers in the Western Hemisphere.
You should be able to watch these two celestial bodies for about three hours, as they show themselves to be the two brightest objects in the night sky.
However, after Friday night the planet Venus will begin to descend into the horizon, to be drowned out by the fading rays of the Sun as it sets in the western sky.
After the end of February 2009, Venus will not return to the evening sky until spring 2010 [edited 3/2/09, thank's for the catch] for the Northern Hemisphere and autumn 2010 for the Southern Hemisphere.
Called the “Venus-crescent moon conjunction,” additional information about this evening event (much more than many of the other articles) is found at the very interesting LiveScience.com article “Moon and Venus Converge Friday Night” by Joe Rao, a writer for Space.com.
It should be a wonderful sight on the night of February 27, 2009, and almost as good of a sight on the next night. I hope you don’t miss it!
Author's note (3/2/09): On the evening of Saturday, February 28, I opened the front door (which was facing west) at a friend's house (in Morton, Illinois). It was a few minutes before 7:30 p.m. CST. Lo and behold, there was the Moon and Venus shining brightly in the sky right in front of us. They weren't a few degrees apart as seen the night before (of course, it was cloudy that night) but, nevertheless, the sight was impressive.
David Bass
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