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It’s 11 o’clock on a clear, moonless night when, although ready to call it a night, I pause at a glass door that looks out to the southwestern sky: I am moved by an urge for contact with the stars.

Venus is currently observable in the early-morning eastern sky, rising around 5 A.M. local daylight time, positioned initially in far eastern Leo before transitioning into western Virgo. Exhibiting a ...