PLANET OF THE MONTH
Venus will dominate the morning sky, where an array of worlds, large and small, bright and faint, will be visible, stretched from east to south like beads on a string.
Although Venus has always been popular with amateur astronomers because of its brilliance and its beautiful telescopic phases, until recently many planetary scientists considered it a forgotten world, rather lost in Mars’ ruddy celebrity light. While probe after probe was sent to Mars – landers, rovers and orbiters – Venus
