Re: moon and venus

posted by [identity profile] rfunk.livejournal.com at 11:28am on 17/07/2007
Thanks for the link.... "The Venus-Saturn-Regulus trio sets by the time it’s completely dark, leaving Jupiter, higher in the south, to shine as the brightest point of light in the night."

Ah, so it's Venus in the west, and Jupiter in the south, and apparently just some sort of trick of the light or atmosphere or eye or brain making them look elongated.
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Re: moon and venus

posted by [identity profile] duriyah.livejournal.com at 12:47pm on 17/07/2007
Yes, I also saw a very bright Jupiter in the south, with a red star nearby, which I think was Antares, in Scorpio.

A little more searching dug up this diskmap of the apparent planetary disks as viewed from earth. Venus was at crescent last Friday, and so it's apparent dimensions would be several times longer than wide. Perhaps that accounts for the phenomenon you saw.
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