This has little to do with geography. It is Venus, the Chang Geng star. One month ago (December 1), it was the double star companion of Venus and Jupiter (pictured

). Now Jupiter is sinking into the low sky in the southwest, and Venus has become the brightest star in the sky, even brighter than Sirius at its brightest. It is about 14 times brighter. The answer to Jupiter is because Jupiter was very bright some time ago. On January 24, Jupiter conjunct the sun, completely submerged in the brilliance of the sun and unobservable. Venus usually doesn't set past 8 o'clock at night, but it set at 7:40 in the past month.

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