This image of Venus was taken using my 10mm StarShoot SS Camera II 1.3 MP. This image was taken at dusk on February 16th, 2009. The temperature was about 25 degrees with clear skies and calm wind.
Venus is always brighter than the brightest stars, with its apparent magnitude ranging from −3.8 to −4.6. On this evening, Venus was visible even before the sun fully set. The diameter of Venus is only 650 km less than the Earth's, and its mass is 81.5% of the Earth's. Venus orbits the Sun at an average distance of about 108 million km, and completes an orbit every 224.65 days. As it moves around its orbit, Venus displays phases in a telescopic view like those of the Moon: In the phases of Venus the planet presents a small "full" image when it is on the opposite side of the Sun. It shows a larger "quarter phase" when it is at its maximum elongations from the Sun.
-Wikipedia
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