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  • Stargazing News - August 2nd, 2025

    From CJ@954:100/61 to All on Friday, August 01, 2025 20:36:52
    Saturday August 2, 2025

    Venus Shines near the Shoe-Buckle Cluster (pre-dawn)

    For several mornings surrounding Saturday, August 2, Venus' orbital motion sunward will carry it close to the prominent open star cluster in Gemini known as the Shoe-Buckle Cluster or Messier 35, making a nice sight in binoculars before the sky brightens too much. On Friday morning, the fuzzy knot of the cluster's stars will be located several finger widths to the left of brilliant Venus. At the planet's closest approach to the cluster on Saturday, the
    cluster will be just to Venus' upper left (or 2.5 degrees to its celestial north). From Sunday onward, the cluster will shift higher above Venus, but they'll share the field of view in binoculars until Tuesday.

    (Data courtesy of Starry Night)
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