Number 37 (Story #5), June 5, 1991 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein MARS, VENUS, AND JUPITER will be very close to each other in the evening sky in June, particularly on June 17. Venus's profile will reach "maximum elongation" (it will be 45 degrees east of the sun in our sky) on June 13, when it will set three hours after the Sun. (Astronomy, June 1991.)