Ephemeris: 11/27/2026 – Venus will soon adorn our morning sky
This is Ephemeris for Tuesday, October 27th. Today the Sun will be up for 10 hours and 24 minutes, setting at 6:38, and it will rise tomorrow at 8:15. The Moon, 1 day past full, will rise at 7:11 this evening.
The planet Venus passed between the Earth and the Sun. 4 days ago, on Friday the 23rd. This was called an inferior conjunction. Inferior, because Venus was closer than the Sun. This is when Venus is closest to the Earth and moving fastest in the westward or retrograde direction, moving from the evening sky to the morning sky. It will begin to appear before sunrise about November 3rd, next Tuesday morning. This will be what it’s called its Heliacal Rising. It will become more and more visible as the days go on, as it separates itself from the Sun, becoming our brilliant morning star until next April*.
The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.
Addendum
*On the program I said summer, not April. Stellarium, the app for PCs I use to create many of the illustrations for this blog has a visibility function. According to it, Venus will be visible for the next 5 months, through March next year. I was expecting at least a couple more months, since its superior conjunction with the Sun wasn’t until August 11, 2027. During most of its morning appearance in the sky, it will be south of the Sun, rising later and setting sooner than average, based on its didtance from the Sun, so it will spend more time masked by the bright twilight.
