Venus and Uranus are still relatively close in the morning sky. Venus is magnitude -4.05 and Uranus +5.78 on this date, separated by 12°49'47". Uranus will not stray far from this part of Taurus for the remainder of its 2025 - 2026 apparition, basically staying south of the Pleiades the entire time. Venus, on the other hand, is rapidly moving eastward toward the Gemini border, where it will engage in a very nice conjunction with Jupiter in August, mirroring their performance in August 2001. But for a comparison of the current apparition to a previous one of a similar nature, compare this view to that of July 25, 1993 taken from the mountains of Colorado. Unannotated image. |