Venus will be very bright in the middle of October, and again at the end of December. This periodic brightness happens when the planet is hear ihe Earth (distant 33 or 39 Million miles). At inferior-conjunction on November 20 it will be nearer by several million miles, but will be invisible, since its unilluminated hemisphere ' will -be presented to us. In October and December only a part of the illuminated surface will be seen, like the crescent Moon, but as' the planet is near, the brightness of the disc compensates for the small fraction of it seen illuminated.
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