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Watch The Two Brightest Planets Kiss In Twilight.
Byline: Staff Writers
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 22 (SPX) -- Anyone who looks low in the west early on a clear evening for the next couple weeks will witness an unusual sight. Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets, will draw closer and closer together from day to day, will then have an eye-catching conjunction (close pairing) on the evenings of August 31 to September 2, 2005, and then will begin to move apart.
The direction to look is low in the west-southwest, and the best time is about 40 to 60 minutes after your local sunset. The brightest of the two "stars" shining there will be Venus. Jupiter closes in on it from the upper left during August and passes closest to it on September 1st, when the two will appear separated by hardly the width of your finger held at arm's length (about 1.2 degrees).
Also in the vicinity is the much dimmer star Spica. If Spica isn't bright enough to show through the twilight, binoculars should reveal it easily. In addition, the waxing crescent Moon joins the party on September 6th and 7th.
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