On Jul 1, 12:19 pm, "mitch" wrote:

The sky map I looked at is all wrong.
Saturn at about 05:30 UTC was easily 2 or 3 degrees
away from Venus as they were setting.

I suspect you're suffering from the Moon illusion, where things
(including planet pairings) look bigger (or farther) than they really
are when close to the horizon. In fact, Saturn and Venus are still
just under 1 degree apart as I write this. They have been closer than
2 degrees since 11 UT on Thursday, June 28.

- Tony Flanders