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Old 15-01-2018, 12:23 PM
bigjoe (JOSEPH)
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One of my favourite astro pursuits - daytime planet spotting. Managed to find Venus a degree and a half E of the Sun yesterday. Superior conjunction wasn't all that long ago. Today's Soho pic attached & rotated to illustrate position (credit: SOHO LASCO C2) . Disk very obvious at 90x
Thanks for sharing Mirko.
Not enough do this...
Never done this myself on Venus .

I Twice found Saturn and Mars though, just after morning twilight , and was surprised just how much easier it was to pick out details.. Syrtis , and the Cassini division both times visually.
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