{"id":33066,"date":"2025-02-12T12:24:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33066"},"modified":"2025-02-12T12:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:53:05","slug":"33066","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33066","title":{"rendered":"Venus Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venus Valentine<\/h2>\n

From Sky and Telescope<\/em><\/p>\n

Fortuitously, the Planet of Love reaches greatest brilliancy on Valentine’s Day. At magnitude \u20134.9, it’s the equivalent of crushing a 1.4-day-old Moon into a point source. That’s bright! Bright enough to cast a shadow from a rural site on a moonless night. Count yourself lucky if you have snow cover. The added contrast makes it the perfect backdrop for shadow-spotting.<\/p>\n

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Venus casts shadows of the author and his tripod-mounted camera on a garage door on September 14, 2023, during the planet’s morning apparition. Shadows are crisp compared to those cast by the Sun because Venus is a point source, not an extended disk. If you try this experiment and have difficulty seeing your shadow, sway back and forth, and it should become more obvious. Bob King<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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If you’re wondering what to give your love for Valentine’s Day, consider the nearest planet. In the movie It’s a Wonderful Life<\/em>, the fictional character George Bailey offers to lasso the Moon for his future wife Mary Hatch. Why not brandish your own imaginary lasso and “pull down” Venus for your sweetheart? (Don’t forget to have a box of specialty chocolates as a backup.)<\/p>\n

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Venus Valentine From Sky and Telescope Fortuitously, the Planet of Love reaches greatest brilliancy on Valentine’s Day. At magnitude \u20134.9, it’s the equivalent of crushing a 1.4-day-old Moon into a point source. That’s bright! Bright enough to cast a shadow from a rural site on a moonless night. Count yourself lucky if you have snow … Continue reading Venus Valentine<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133],"tags":[1340],"class_list":["post-33066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-news","tag-venus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33066"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33085,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33066\/revisions\/33085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}