evening star

a bright planet seen in the western sky at or soon after sunset, especially Venus.

any planet that rises before midnight.

Origin of evening star

First recorded in 1525–35

But the evening-star still shines in the heavens, and will ever shine there!

Goethe and Schiller |L. Mhlbach
The two knights clashed together on the bridge and Gareth brought the Evening-star groveling in a minute to his feet on his knees.

Tales from Tennyson |Molly K. Bellew
She remained Istar, without any feminine suffix, and it was never forgotten that she was the evening-star.

Patriarchal Palestine |Archibald Henry Sayce
Under those trees, gazing across the ocean, in the still light of the evening-star, Odysseus wept for his far-distant home.

Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2) |John Addington Symonds

She has a sphere of her own, which has no more to do with our world than if she lived in the evening-star.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 |Various

evening star

a planet, usually Venus, seen just after sunset during the time that the planet is east of the sun Compare morning star