images

Crescent Venus

by

J.Lodriguss/Novapix

Reference

a-ven01-00004

Date

2010-01-20

Crescent Venus shimmers in the daytime afternoon sky due to poor seeing conditions. This image was taken on March 31, 2009 just 4 days after inferior conjunction. The planet was at magnitude, -4.1, and subtended an angle of 58.7 arc seconds, with a phase of 0.014, at an elongation of 9.9 degrees from the Sun.