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Crescent Venus
author: J.Lodriguss/Novapix
reference: a-ven01-00004
Image Size 300 DPI: 32 * 21 cm
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.
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