{"id":861,"date":"2025-02-03T19:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=861"},"modified":"2025-02-03T19:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:12:21","slug":"venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"Venus with Crescent Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Now in the first week of February 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=835\">Venus is approaching its peak brightness<\/a>.  Here is a picture of it near the waxing crescent moon while at a brightness magnitude of -4.8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC08239-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC08239-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC08239-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC08239-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC08239-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC08239-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC08239-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC08239-1040x585.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This makes it 23 times as bright as Mars, which had a magnitude of -1.4 in <a href=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=855\">the photos following its lunar eclipse three weeks ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"910\" height=\"910\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC08152.jpg\" alt=\"Mars emerges from lunar occultation, photo by David Bookstaber 20250113\" class=\"wp-image-856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC08152.jpg 910w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC08152-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC08152-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC08152-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC08152-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC08152-640x640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Venus has almost twice the diameter of Mars (which itself has twice the diameter of the moon), and presently it is also only 75% as far from Earth as is Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now in the first week of February 2025, Venus is approaching its peak brightness. 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