Venus in daylight above the Colosseum
Taken by Paolo Palma on August 10, 2023 @
Roma - Italy
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Date Taken: 2023:08:14 09:47:59
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Venus looking out of the window of the Colosseum. Observation and daytime shooting - Rome 11:00 UT.
Amidst hundreds of tourists crowding the eternal city, last 10 August, I stood in the shadow of the Colosseum in search of Venus.
The structure of the Roman Amphitheatre lent itself very well to the purpose because while its highest part hid the Sun, the arched windows of the third level left completely free the area of sky occupied by the planet, at that time placed almost exactly 'under' the Sun.
Thanks to the particularly transparent conditions of the sky, once the binoculars were in focus, the planet's thin crescent was immediately visible in the centre of one of the windows, despite the fact that it was broad daylight and the planet was only 3 days away from the inferior conjunction
So I followed it and observed it for a while in binoculars at 10x and then zoomed in several times - albeit with some difficulty - with a simple Nikon coolpix p510.
It was not easy to find it with the camera because of the thinness and low contrast with the background-sky.
Her vision reminded me of Venus Felix, the divinity worshipped two thousand years ago in the temple placed in front of the Colosseum, where the statue of 'Venus of Good Fortune' placed in the apse was exactly facing the Roman Amphitheatre.
These images are taken just through a Nikon camera. And they are frames of some videos visible here:
http://www.unsaltonelcielo.it/venere-affacciata-al-colosseo/
Photographer's website:
https://www.unsaltonelcielo.it
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