what star or planet is in the western sky
â Mars is low in the western sky through the middle of April, when it disappears in the Sunâs glare. It will return to view in the morning sky by the middle of August and climb higher into the sky as the year progresses, growing gradually brighter as it does so.
Venus reaches its greatest elongation â its greatest angular distance â 45 degrees to the east of the sun on June 6. On the evenings of June 30 and July 1, it will team with Jupiter in a spectacularly close conjunction high in the western sky at dusk. Venus will be at its brightest in early summer as it heads back down toward the sun, reaching its greatest brilliancy for this apparition on the evening of July 10 at magnitude â4.5.