Observing

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  Venus dazzles at dusk and closes in on Neptune

  13 January 2020

  Even casual skywatchers cannot fail to notice brightest planet Venus currently hanging like a lantern above the southwest horizon at dusk. But as Venus moves eastwards through Aquarius on successive nights, it draws closer to outermost (and faintest) planet Neptune until the pair reach a particularly close conjunction on the UK evening of Monday, 27 January.
  

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  See the Moon buzz the Beehive Cluster in the small hours of 12 January

  9 January 2020

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  Watch the Moon hide naked-eye star Tejat in Gemini on 9 January

  5 January 2020