Celestial calendar

VENUS

Visibility of the Venus in 1998:

Venus is the brilliant object in the evening sky until mid-way through the second week of January when it becomes too close to the Sun for observation. It reappears at the beginning of the third week of January as a morning star and can be seen in the morning sky until the end of the third week of September when it again becomes too close to the Sun for observation; from mid-December until the end of the year it is visible in the evening sky.

Date	Apparent Right Ascension	Apparent Declination	Magnitude	Date	Apparent Right Ascension	Apparent Declination	Magnitude
Jan.1	20^h 20.8^m	-17^o 24^'	-4.4^m	Jul.4	4^h 39.7^m	20^o 45^'	-3.8^m
Jan.17	19^h 46.6^m	-15^o 09^'	-3.5^m	Jul.20	6^h 01.9^m	22^o 43^'	-3.7^m
Feb.2	19^h 17.2^m	-14^o 55^'	-4.5^m	Aug.5	7^h 25.6^m	21^o 59^'	-3.7^m
Feb.18	19^h 27.7^m	-15^o 42^'	-4.7^m	Aug.21	8^h 47.7^m	18^o 34^'	-3.7^m
Mar.6	20^h 09.1^m	-15^o 49^'	-4.7^m	Sep.6	10^h 06.2^m	12^o 54^'	-3.8^m
Mar.22	21^h 06.4^m	-14^o 12^'	-4.5^m	Sep.22	11^h 21.2^m	5^o 43^'	-3.8^m
Apr.7	22^h 10.5^m	-10^o 38^'	-4.3^m	Oct.8	12^h 34.4^m	-2^o 12^'	-3.9^m
Apr.23	23^h 16.9^m	-5^o 24^'	-4.2^m	Oct.24	13^h 48.6^m	-10^o 01^'	-3.9^m
May1	23^h 50.4^m	-2^o 21^'	-4.1^m	Nov.9	15^h 06.3^m	-16^o 51^'	-3.9^m
May17	0^h 58.1^m	4^o 12^'	-4.0^m	Nov.25	16^h 28.9^m	-21^o 48^'	-3.8^m
Jun.2	2^h 08.0^m	10^o 45^'	-3.9^m	Dec.11	17^h 55.7^m	-24^o 05^'	-3.8^m
Jun.18	3^h 21.5^m	16^o 32^'	-3.8^m	Dec.27	19^h 23.5^m	-23^o 14^'	-3.8^m

Note: All the times in this page are expressed in universal time (UT).
For Kyiv Local_Time=UT+2^h (and Local_Time=UT+3^h for summer time).