Venus Is Visible Before Dawn

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Sujet : Venus Is Visible Before Dawn
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacy nz.general
Date : 07. Jun 2025, 09:05:24
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(Hey, with all the religio/ideo/political crap in both these groups, why
not have some *non*-religio/ideo/political crap ;)).

I was up about an hour or so before dawn a few days ago, and noticed a
very bright object high in the sky. I was back in bed before I realized it
was the planet Venus.

Venus looks like nothing else in the sky. To my eyes, it’s noticeably
something more than a mere point of light, like everything else in the
night sky (except the Moon, of course). It looks bigger, and you can
almost notice that it isn’t perfectly round, because it shows phases (like
the Moon, but only properly visible through a telescope) when it’s on the
same side of the Sun as the Earth. Its colour is noticeably a bit off-
white.

I remember reading in a book somewhere that, at the extremes of its orbit
(relative to the Earth’s), it might be visible up to three hours before
sunrise (as a “morning star”, as it is right now), or up to three hours
after sunset (as an “evening star”, when it’s on the other side of its
orbit relative to us). A quick peek forward in time with KStars indicates
that it is slowly moving back closer (from our viewpoint) to the Sun,
though I think we have a couple months left before it disappears from
view.

I tried looking for it again a day or two ago, but was stymied by a solid
blanket of winter fog. Takes effort to get up that early. ;)

Anyway, give it a try, to see if you have better luck in your particular
corner of our planet. ;)

Date Sujet#  Auteur
7 Jun 25 * Venus Is Visible Before Dawn10Lawrence D'Oliveiro
7 Jun 25 +* Re: Venus Is Visible Before Dawn2Willy Nilly
7 Jun 25 i`- Re: Venus Is Visible Before Dawn1Borax Man
7 Jun 25 +- Re: Venus Is Visible Before Dawn1Borax Man
7 Jun 25 +* Re: Venus Is Visible Before Dawn5Farley Flud
7 Jun 25 i+* Re: Venus Is Visible Before Dawn3Farley Flud
7 Jun 25 ii+- Re: Venus Is Visible Before Dawn1%
8 Jun 25 ii`- Re: Venus Is Visible Before Dawn1Borax Man
8 Jun 25 i`- Re: Venus Is Visible Before Dawn1Borax Man
8 Jun 25 `- Re: Venus Is Visible Before Dawn1Lawrence D'Oliveiro

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