10 hrs UTC and bright sunshine near London, therefore after a look at the 4 rather small sunspot groups ~ decided to examine Venus ( 150mm aperture...

For decades I've wanted to see Venus at noon. Today the sky was clear at 13:30 BST (12:30 UT) and the crescent moon was visible not too far from Venus. Venus...

It's been interesting following the progress of Venus toward superior conjuction over the last few weeks in the images from SOHO. It has now appeared in the...

Hi, Somes pictures of the Venus belt, taken Sunday evening near Nantes (West of France), showing the progression of the shadow of the Earth...

....and as far as I can tell, no one has ever photographed it before (although I'm sure someone will tell me if this is...

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/28nov_venusshadows.htm

Hi group; after many days of bad weather, I started again to image the sky, and this time I wanna show you the image of Venus dark-side. The dark emisphere of...

http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/transits/venus_2004/images/TWL_20040608_053348.jpg This shows a faint halo on the dark portion not backed by the sun

Hi, Summer is finished..clouds are coming and imaging is difficult, but in this days I've captured some images of Venus in violet light with good seeing that...

My sky was cloudy all day. From time to time a few drops of rain made their way to the ground. For a while I wondered if I had removed the new snowplow from...

I'm on the US west coast, near San Diego, and right now, with the sun in the sky, it is easy to see Venus nekked eye, to the moon's 4- o'clock, about 6 moon...

Friday morning I was able to spot Venus with my unaided eye (well, unaided except for corrective eyeglasses, of course) after sunrise. I wrote about my...

Just picked out Venus during bright evening twilight at about 7:15pm=20 local time. I was using my 10x32 Leica binoculars. Over the next few=20 months Venus...

Just watched Venus set over the Santa Rosa mtns west of Palm Springs, = Calif.=20 Easily seen in Fujinon 16x70mm binoculars and Orion 100mm f/6 refractor....

being maximum elongated, our sister planet is a 1/2 phase. Really looks great in the 80mm ED.

Dear All I live in Liverpool UK, and at the moment Venus is magnificent in the evening sky. My problem is that I am unable to resolve Venus in either of my...

Didn't have my webcam gear with me this evening so I had to opt for a Mak-Cas on an alt-az tripod plus a digital camera. Amazing sight through the viewfinder;...

Hi all, Here is Venus as seen from Norway June 5, 13:12 UT http://arnholm.org/astro/venus/venus_20040605_1312ut.jpg Telescope: Vixen 90mm f11...

Minutes after sunset Venus was observed and sketched at 147x using Mighty Mouse (102mm SCT). The planet's altitude was 22 degrees. Seeing was fair. The...

Venus was only about 8 degrees from the sun when I managed to spot it, a few minutes before local sunset. I was using 8 x 50 binoculars, standing in a spot...