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a quality telescope — to resolve the distant world as a tiny blue orb. You may like Faint Neptune joins Venus and Saturn to form a planetary triangle in the pre-dawn sky on April 28 Don't miss a ...

On March 22, 2025, the Dwingeloo telescope in the Netherlands successfully pulled off an Earth-Venus-Earth (EVE) bounce, making them the second group of amateurs ever to do so. The full breakdown ...

Get closer to our solar companions with the best telescopes for seeing planets ... the crescent moon shines alongside Mercury, Venus and Saturn. And for a simple but striking way to test your ...

With a telescope, you’ll see that Venus may be bright but it is only showing off a crescent phase some 26 percent lit. Nonetheless, its full disk stretches a hefty 39” — that’s a larger ...

An automatic pointing device locked on the sun and used it as a reference point to focus the telescope on Venus. Then the telescope photographed the spectrum of solar infra-red light reflected ...