Quote from smove :For any future questions about stars and beyond this program could be very useful for you: It's called "Stellarium", for free and open source - I've been using it for some years now and, like LFS, there's one or two updates a year. Or this On the image, it was about 20:30, today. Red one is the earth and the next inner circle is venus. Makes sense that its so bright these days. Attached images