Seeing Venus in the daylight, 16 August 2026

Western horizon as seen from Adelaide on Sunday 16 August at 5:25 pm, 20 minutes before sunset. Venus is about two finger-widths beside the crescent Moon. Similar views will be seen elsewhere in Australia 20 min before local sunset (click to embiggen) 10x50 Binocular view of the pair on Sunday 16 August at 5:25 pm. (click to embiggen) While regular readers of this blog know that I'm obsessed with…