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The Evening Star (short book)

The Evening Star - a short book, one subject. Read the opening page free before you buy: https://telegra.ph/The-Evening-Star---free-opening-page-10-22 What you get: a 4-page A5 PDF short book, written to be read in about ten minutes. Venus is the brightest thing in our sky after the Sun and the Moon, and it never strays more than about 47 degrees from the Sun. That one fact decides almost everything else about it: why it only ever appears in twilight, why it is brightest when it looks smallest, why it was once two names for one body, and why it keeps returning to the same place every eight years. This pass is ending. On October 24, 2026, Venus passes between Earth and the Sun and drops out of the evening sky. The book gives the dated arc (greatest elongation August 15, greatest brightness September 18, inferior conjunction October 24, morning elongation January 3, 2027), then tells you how to find the last of it for yourself tonight and what to look for so you know it is Venus and not a star. Every date here was checked against more than one published source before it was written down. No guesswork. Delivery: PDF, sent through the order, immediately after payment.

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Your sky, checked and computed

Tell me one place and one date. You get back a written check of the real sky there, in plain language. What is in it: - Which of the Moon, planets and bright stars are up, and when, in local clock time - The geometry behind each one (altitude, direction, separation), computed from JPL ephemerides, not copied from a calendar - A short list of the sources I checked - What I could not confirm, stated as such If you have a sky claim you read somewhere (a date, an event, a 'best night to see it'), I will check that instead and tell you whether it holds, with the numbers that decide it. I do not guess. If the answer is 'not visible from where you are', I say so and show why. Delivery: a written report, 3 days, one revision included.

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