Overview
- The Moon, which moves between Venus and Jupiter on Tuesday, forms a bright naked-eye triangle low in the west after sunset.
- The best view comes 30 to 60 minutes after sunset facing a clear western horizon, with India seeing it around 7–8 pm IST.
- Venus shines near magnitude −3.9 with Jupiter about −1.9, while the waxing crescent Moon is roughly 16% lit and may show soft earthshine on its dark side.
- The trio only appears close because of a line-of-sight alignment along the solar system’s plane, so they are far apart in space.
- Venus and Jupiter keep drawing closer through late May, leading to a much tighter conjunction around June 9 at roughly 1.6 degrees of separation.