So.. How long will Venus be orbiting us?
i said it was the brightest star, but it's actually a planet. I guess what i meant was the brightest object, excluding the sun and the moon, of course.
it orbits the sun, just like earth does. I remember learning sometime before or during highschool that at some time of the year, it's known as the evening star, and at another time it's known as the morning star, due to when it's visible in the sky. I can't remember when those times are, so i pulled up the wiki article for reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus#Observation
Venus is always brighter than the brightest stars, with its apparent magnitude ranging from −3.8 to −4.6. This is bright enough to be seen even in the middle of the day, and the planet can be easy to see when the Sun is low on the horizon. As an inferior planet, it always lies within about 47° of the Sun.[44]
Venus 'overtakes' the Earth every 584 days as it orbits the Sun.[1] As it does so, it goes from being the 'Evening star', visible after sunset, to being the 'Morning star', visible before sunrise. While Mercury, the other inferior planet, reaches a maximum elongation of only 28° and is often difficult to discern in twilight, Venus is hard to miss when it is at its brightest. Its greater maximum elongation means it is visible in dark skies long after sunset. As the brightest point-like object in the sky, Venus is a commonly misreported 'unidentified flying object'. U.S. President Jimmy Carter reported having seen a UFO in 1969, which later analysis suggested was probably the planet, and countless other people have mistaken Venus for something more exotic.[45]
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