24 Apr
2004
24 Apr
'04
2:52 a.m.
Ann House and I did a lecture and star party in Richfield tonight and one fun aspect of the star party was convincing people who were looking at Venus through the scope that they really were looking at Venus. Many though it was a tiny view of the Moon. Patrick Chuck Hards wrote:
Note that the moon and Venus have identical phases tonight. Both fit in the same wide-field bino FOV, a beautiful sight. And there is a much-diminished Mars, seemingly just below the moon, yet actually on the far side of the sun. I'm going back out in the yard, to the parallelogram...r