August 16th: Venus spotted from Seoul

Yeah!

I live in about the worst place in the world to view the night sky, in the centre of Seoul where it's:

• bright,
• generally smoggy,
• often rainy or cloudy,
• full of buildings on all sides.

The sun just went down though, and since all of a sudden the sky has cleared up I was just able to see it above the horizon before it was obscured by a building as it went down. The sky was still somewhat bright so Venus was very dim, but it was unmistakably Venus. Here's what the sky looks like right now, from heavens-above.com:

That tiny Ve way over to the right just above the horizon is Venus. It'll continue to get easier and easier to spot over the next few months as it pulls away from the Sun.