Visible Planets

[Lawrence00]

Anyone smart about these? Southern sky in the Midwest. 6 pm CST. Two brighter than the others. The farthest west is low and bright. 2nd from the left in the east is much "higher" in the sky.

 

[Lawrence00]

Looks like west to east it is Venus, Saturn, Jupiter. Farther east, I dunno.

 

[Pepper]

After the moon, Venus is the brightest planet in the evening sky.

 

[feywon]

There's a web thing Earth Sky news that i believe has a weekly or monthly guide to visible planets. Or if you just search "visible planets from (your location) on (date)" you should get some science websites in results that should give you answers.

Venus is sometimes the morning star instead of evening, but it was evening star in SW when i spotted it last week.