Venus is now the "Evening Star". It is currently the brightest planet, at magnitude -4.
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| Venus, 31 Oct. Olympus 50mm f/2 ED |
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| Barnard's Star (circled). 01 Nov, 7:50pm MDT. Nikon 180mm f/2.8 Ai-s. |
Barnard's Star is 6 ly distant and has the largest proper motion (movement relative to the more distant background stars) of any known star (10.3 arcsec/year). It is getting some attention because of the close pass by comet C/2023 A3. Barnard's Star is more than twice as old as our sun, and will live much longer, over a trillion years.
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| Our star, the Sun. 01 Nov. AT102ED f/7 + Lunt solar wedge. |
The sun is near the peak of the current solar cycle, with many active sunspots.
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