Planet Venus Information

Today in Astronomy History
courtesy of astroplanet.info

February 7, 1824
English astronomer, Sir William Huggins, is born. Sir Huggins explored the spectra of stars, nebulae and comets to interpret their chemical composition.

February 7, 1889
Astronomical Society of Pacific holds their first meeting in San Francisco.

February 7, 1979
Pluto moves inside the orbit of Neptune for the first time since both planets were discovered.

February 7, 2003
Last contact with Pioneer 10.

Welcome to Planet Venus Information
A website about the planet Venus

Named for the goddess of love, Venus is frequently placed as the morning or evening star. This hot twin of Earth is the second planet from the Sun.

Being an inner planet, that is within Earth orbit, it never appears very far away from the Sun, so learning when the optimal times when Venus is furthest away from the Sun, it ket to observing Venus. In this website we calculate those times known as "Elongations."