Venus is scary close to the Sun

I can’t show you a photo because Venus is so close to the Sun, all the camera sees is glare.

However, I could see the thin crescent this morning at 9:47 a.m. local mountain time.

It’s incredible!

Venus’ location at the time was   RA 5h 4m 15.2s   Dec 23  32′ 24″

The Sun’s location was                 RA  4h 48m 15s    Dec 22  24′ 44″

Doing longhand math that makes Venus   16m .2s in RA and 1  7′ 40″ in Dec away from the Sun

Whew!  Come on Tuesday!

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