Monthly Night Sky information provided by Chris Vaughan (@Astrogeoguy) at Starry Night Education (@StarryNightEdu).

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Goddess of Love at Greatest Brilliance (pre-dawn)
February 14 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
For several hours after sunset on Friday, February 14, Venus will shine in the western sky at its greatest illuminated extent for the current evening apparition. In a telescope, the planet will show a 27%-illuminated waning crescent phase and an apparent disk size of 39 arc-seconds. Even with a less than fully-illuminated disk (inset), Venus’ nearness to Earth of only 0.425 Astronomical Units (39.5 million miles or 63. 6 million km) will boost its brightness to a brilliant magnitude -4.85.