The Crescent Venus
Taken by Meiying Lee on August 20, 2023 @
Taipei, Taiwan
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS R7
Exposure Time: 1/640
Aperture: f/6.3
ISO: 3200
Date Taken: 2023:08:20 05:15:35
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You can get up early to observe Venus now! Venus, which shines brightly in the western sky at dusk in the first half of the year, has passed between the earth and the sun (inferior junction), appeared in the eastern sky before sunrise! In ancient China, the Venus that appeared in the morning was called "Tai-bai Venus"(太白金星). The apparent diameter of Venus observed today is 56.7 arcseconds, and the illuminated part is only 2.4%, so it looks like an ultra-thin small crescent moon! Because Venus is currently very close to the sun, it was originally worried that the sky would be too bright to observe. Unexpectedly, Venus is so powerful that I caught it breaking through the eastern clouds ten minutes before sunrise! After that, I continued to observe it until half an hour after sunrise, and recorded its moving track and video. Watching this tiny moon slowly rise and disappear in the gray sky is really fascinating. The crescent Venus photographed with a long lens can also see the dispersion phenomenon of red, yellow and green separation of Venus due to atmospheric refraction.
The link to the video of Venus rising from the east this morning is https://youtu.be/Pi3FqM7BtVc.
Photographer's website:
https://www.facebook.com/meiying.lee.98/
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