Use your Starry Night Enthusiast™ software to observe the phases of Venus. Select Favourites  Guides  Atlas from the menu. Open the Find pane and double-click on the entry for Venus. Close the Find...

Use your Starry Night Enthusiast™ software to observe the phases of Venus. Select Favourites
 Guides
 Atlas from the menu. Open the Find pane and double-click on the entry for Venus. Close the Find pane and use the Zoom buttons in the toolbar to adjust the field of view to about 7 arcmin (7’) wide. a. Draw the current shape (phase) of Venus. Set the Time Flow Rate to 30 days and single step forward in time |, drawing Venus to scale at each step. Try to be accurate in both size and shape. Make a total of 20 timesteps and drawings. b. From your drawings, determine when the planet is nearer or farther from the Earth than is the Sun. c. Deduce from your drawings when Venus is coming toward us or is moving away from us. d. Explain why Venus goes through this particular cycle of phases.