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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