Planet Venus Information

Today in Astronomy History
courtesy of astroplanet.info

February 8, 1677
French astronomer, Jacques Cassini, in born at the Paris Observatory. Jacques Cassini compiled the first tables for the moons of Saturn in 1716.

February 8, 1743
Comet C/1743 C1 passes within 0.0390 AUs of Earth

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."