On this evening, Venus is magnitude -3.96 while Jupiter is -2.15, with the separation between the two now only 10° 17' 38" if we can accept the calculations of 20+ year old planetarium software LOL.  The gathering mirrors that of February 1999, which saw the conjunction happen about a week earlier but also significantly closer than this year.  Today's scene corresponds to the situation of February 15, 1999 as shown on the left of that page.