February Night Sky

More than a week ago I shared that Jupiter and Venus were visible above the western horizon after sunset.

It's getting better.  

Venus is closing-in on Jupiter as their conjunction approaches on February 28.

In the astronomy world a conjunction occurs when any two objects in the sky (moon, planet, star, asteroid) appear to be close together in the sky.  Beginning now Jupiter and Venus commence a dance that will culminate in a planetary conjunction on March 1.  After that the planets will pull-apart.

You don't have to stay-up later for this and it's easy to spot as they are the brightest objects in the sky.  Look to the west after sunset.