Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Thursday, October 28th.  The sun will rise at 8:14.  It’ll be up for 10 hours and 22 minutes, setting at 6:37.   The moon, 2 days before last quarter, will rise at 11:00 this evening.  |  Later today Venus is in inferior conjunction with the Sun.  That is, it will pass between the earth and the sun.  This time it won’t do it directly between, which is normal.  However a year and a half from now Venus will pass in front of the sun so we can see it.  This is the twice in 200 year transit of Venus.  Currently the transits occur in pairs 8 years apart after an interval of over 100 years.  This time we cannot see Venus as it will pass far south of the sun.  In the next week or two it will begin to be visible in the east just before sunrise.  It’s sudden appearance will cause it to be reported as a UFO.  [I suppose to those reporting it it will be a UFO in the generic definition.  It would be unidentified]  It’s just Venus spending 9 months in the morning sky.

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