Mitch,

You may be a day premature. For us in Europe, things get close this
evening with a separation of about 0.5 degrees.

Anthony.

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. The sky map shows them to be a lot
closer..what gives?
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yoursky