Planets In January
Jupiter alone wil’. dominate the sky during the hours of darkness. It will in January be the only planet well clear of twilight. Throughout the month it will be rising in the north-east before sunset. At the beginning of the month it will set in the north-west around 3 a.m. By the end of the month it will be setting an hour and a half earlier. Venus is now drawing very quickly closer to the sun. In the early part of January it
can be seen low in the west just after sunset. It will set, however, before twilight ends. By the middle of the montn Venus will be too close to the sun to be seen It will next appear in the morning sky in three weeks’ time. Both Saturn and Mars will be lost in the long evening twilight. Mercury will only rise after morning twilight has commenced and will be lost In the dawn sky.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30947, 31 December 1965, Page 11
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