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Today, Sunday January 22, 2023 Venus and Saturn will meet in the night sky, making a close approach between both stars, which will be the first conjunction of the year. Next, we detail how and at what time to see it today from Mexico live, and the best, from the comfort of your home. Don’t miss this night show starring two planets of the Solar System!
you can see livefrom Mexicoand in the comfort of your home the conjunction between Venus and Saturn through the Virtual Telescope Project that will take place today between the second closest planet to the sun and the second largest star in the Solar System through the transmission that will begin while both planets are separated by less than half a degree. The online event is expected to start at 12:30 p.m. Mexico time (that is, in less than 90 minutes).
To see the conjunction of Venus and saturn live from Mexicojust click on the YouTube link that we share below, or by clicking HERE. We recommend you follow the transmission in real time from this route because the event will be visible in Europe, where it takes us six hours and the sky, in that part of the world, is already beginning to darken.
So much Saturn as Venus They will be visible to the naked eye in the night sky, but viewers will be able to tell them apart by the brightness of each star. Saturn, for example, is famous for the rings that surround it, and it will have a magnitude of 0.7 degrees during the conjunction, with which it will be 100 times weaker than the brightness of Venus, during this astronomical event. The transmission will be made from the Virtual Telescope Project, located in Ceccano, Italy.
During the conjunctionthe two planets; Venus and Saturnthey will be close enough in the night sky to be fully appreciated with the aid of a telescope, with binoculars or with the naked eye, although Saturn can be difficult to detect without the aid of an instrument, but we who are in Mexicoand it is still daylight, we will be able to follow the astronomical event from the YouTube channel in real time and from the comfort of your home.
According to In the Sky, from Mexico, the conjunction between Venus and Saturn it will become visible in the constellation Capricorn around 4:18 p.m., about 14 degrees above the horizon to the southwest, when the planets will set about two hours after the sun at 5:48 p.m.
The conjunction of these planets marks the beginning of the evening appearance of Venus, planet you’ll see every night in the night skies until late spring, during which time the already bright planet will more than double in brightness.
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