Star Tours

Venus leaves the evening sky during the first week of August. It is moving toward an alignment with the sun, and on Aug. 20 it will be between the Earth and the sun. It sets about four minutes earlier each day and is harder to see each evening than the evening before. Look for it this week low in the west during the evening twilight. It is too close to the sun to see during the last three weeks of August. It reappears as the “morning star” in September. It does not return to the evening sky until late next summer.

Source: John Mosley, Griffith Observatory