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Originally Posted by flatbutt View Post
If you have access to any kind of telescope or good binos you can see that Venus goes thru phases just like the Moon. It's kinda cool to see.
I have a Meade EXT that cost around $800 15 years ago. I do remember finding Venus and seeing the surface partly in shadow. Crescent shape lit up.

I don't know what made the shadow, though. That's how little I know.

Coolest thing was seeing Jupiter's moons, though.
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