Venus crescent phase about one month before or after inferior conjunction. Venus fades to about magnitude −3 when it is backlit by the Sun. The planet is bright enough to be seen in a clear midday sky and is more easily visible when the Sun is low on the horizon or setting. As an inferior planet, it always lies within about 47° of the Sun. Venus "overtakes" Earth every 584 days as it orbits the Sun. As it does so, it changes from the "Evening Star", visible after sunset, to the "Morning Star", visible before sunrise. Although Mercury, the other inferior
Extraterrestrial places in the Cthulhu Mythos the same star cluster as Abbith, Xoth, and Zaoth. In Lin Carter's "The Feaster from the Stars: The History of Yzduggor the Eremite", Ymar is said to orbit the star Algol and to be the homeworld of the Great Old One "Zvilpogghua", an offspring of Tsathoggua (See Algol). Yuggoth (or Iukkoth) is the dwarf planet Pluto. It is home to the Mi-Go, a race of fungi-crustacean of Lovecraft's invention. In Richar A. Lupoff's "Discovery of the Ghooric Zone—March 15, 2337", it alternately appears as an enormous planet that orbits on the rim of the Solar System, coinciding with the hypothetical