Re: Today, I Am The Luckiest Man In The World

To John

Venus does not and never had a crescent,diminishing or otherwise.

What you are seeing is the orbital orientation of Venus to the Sun
against the Earth's outer orbital position.

Now,if you want to be a real astronomer and enjoy the entire absense of
light from Venus then look at Venus pass before the Sun seen from
Earth's orbital position -

http://home.cogeco.ca/~astrosarnia/Photos/Venus%20Transit%20200418%20Large%20Web%20view.jpg

Now do you realise that Venus is roughly the same size as the Earth so
you get the true scale of our parent star and the incredible scale of
heliocentric orbital motion of the Earth.

You have all the conviction of an astrologer which is fine but genuine
people have been put off from enjoying real astronomy by people who
love their constellations,sunrise/sunset,creascents of Venus,variable
axial tilt of the Earth and other astrological kitch.


Want to see a real heliocentric astronomical insight -

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0112/JuSa2000_tezel.gif

The Ptolemaic's seen epicycles while the heliocentrists see the annual
orbital motion of the Earth.There are the Newtonian quasi-geocentrists
who see retrogrades but these are the same people who see the sword of
Orion and the crescent of Venus.

.

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