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I finally got around to finishing my 2020/2021 Venus Revolution. I used my Pentax K20D camera and Celestron 8 telescope. I started at the top right as Venus rose up from behind the sun in the evening. As it comes around in its orbit, approaching the earth, it goes through phases like the moon. Venus goes from nearly full to a crescent, growing larger as it nears us. As it passes between us and the sun we can't see it, so I have a gap. Venus then came out in the morning sky as a crescent. The process plays out in reverse as it works its way around and back behind the sun, again leaving a gap because we can't see it at that time. My camera went through some problems, as well as weather and not getting up as easily in the morning, which led to me reusing 4 images. The two from the bottom left (evening side), I used on the bottom right (morning side) for example.

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I finally got around to finishing my 2020/2021 Venus Revolution. I used my Pentax K20D camera and Celestron 8 telescope. I started at the top right as Venus rose up from behind the sun in the evening. As it comes around in its orbit, approaching the earth, it goes through phases like the moon. Venus goes from nearly full to a crescent, growing larger as it nears us. As it passes between us and the sun we can't see it, so I have a gap. Venus then came out in the morning sky as a crescent. The process plays out in reverse as it works its way around and back behind the sun, again leaving a gap because we can't see it at that time. My camera went through some problems, as well as weather and not getting up as easily in the morning, which led to me reusing 4 images. The two from the bottom left (evening side), I used on the bottom right (morning side) for example.