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Each day, Venus rises and sets like everything else in the sky. However it never exceeds an angle of 45-50 degrees from the Sun so is best seen in the few hours before sunrise and after sunset.

Venus's orbit takes it behind the Sun and in front of the Sun as seen from Earth, so is seen relatively infrequently, in the 2-3 months either side of the point where it goes between us and the Sun which is called inferior conjunction (IC). Before IC it is seen around sunset, after IC it is seen around sunrise.


Venus will be at inferior conjunction in early 2014 so start looking for it in the south and west in the autum.


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