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Answer by uhoh for Venus' magnitude during inferior conjunction
As the phase angle of Venus changes, so does its distance to Earth. More about modeling the phase angle dependence of apparent magnitude can be found in this answer to Calculating the apparent...
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I found references which indicate that Venus usually goes dark. Check out the graphs in this paper for one example. The exceptions happen when Venus' orbit, which is slightly out of the ecliptic,...
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I was doing an assignment on Stellarium when I observed Venus to have an apparent magnitude that didn't become less negative than -3, even at inferior conjunctions when we faced the dark side of...
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