Planet Venus

Welcome to Planet Venus
A website about the planet Venus

Venus is the second planet in our solar system. Named for the goddess of love, Venus is frequently placed as the morning or evening star.

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."

Today in Astronomy History
courtesy of astroplanet.info

July 3, 1841
John Couch Adams decides on this date to determine the position of an unknown planet by examining the irregularities in the motion of Uranus. It takes him 4 years to do the work.

July 3, 2006
Asteroid named 2004 XP14 flies within 268,624 miles of Earth.