On 2006-02-10, No Hassles (Thanks, Coolgoose!) wrote:

Apologies for a silly question engendered by a silly book, i.e. Dan
Brown's Da Vinci Code. It claims that Venus traces a "perfect
pentagram" through the sky, a claim echoed in many other sources online
including Wikipedia.

The apparent path of Venus as seen from the Earth with respect to the
Sun is roughly a 5 sided figure, but it isn't a perfect pentagram by
any means. It's loopy and squashed.

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The night is just the shadow of the Earth.