Can you see a small white dot on the top left corner? It is the Venus - the second nearest planet to the Sun in our Solar System. In Chinese, it is called “Jin Xing” where “Jin” means golden, and “Xing” means star. It is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun, the Moon and airplane’s flashing.

It is always called a morning star or evening star, because we cannot see it in noon and in midnight. Why? It is because Venus is one of the two inferior planets from the Earth which means whereever the Sun goes to, the two inferior planets (Mercury and Venus) will always follow the sun because they are orbiting the sun in a smaller and nearer path to the sun compared to the Earth.

From Earth, we can always see that the Venus is not far from the Sun (=< 47 degrees) :-

A) At noon time, it does exist just next to the Sun but we can’t see it because the sunlight is too bright.

B) At midnight, it is still surrounding the Sun but the Sun has set, therefore we can’t see it too.

C) We can either see it in the early morning (East) or in the evening (West) where the sunlight is not too strong, and the Venus is above the horizon.

It was a quiet morning in Perth, where we stayed in a motor inn. I woke up early and woke SiewPeng as well to see the Venus.

I like the sky in Australia because I can see the stars clearer compared to Malaysia. I have seen Milky Way in Toowoomba. But during our short trip to Perth last month, it was a bit cloudy at night, and we missed the Milky Way. I hope I can see the Milky Way again.

In Malaysia especially in the city, the light pollution from neon, street light, and building lights prevent us from seeing the Milky Way. May be we need to go to a undeveloped rural area in the country to find the Milky Way in a totally dark night sky.

After taking the pictures of the Venus, the sun slowly rised in the horizon. The Sky turned from black to dark blue, then orange to blue, and finally light blue. The night has gone and the new day is waiting for us.

“I like to see the sunrise.” - It is the sentense that I have repeated many times. You can find it in many of my previous posts if you are following my blog.