[AZ-Observing] Re: Daylight sighting of Venus

I intend my comment tongue-in-cheek, of course.  Any way you can find a planet 
in daylight is great!  Showing one to someone else is even better!
 
Steve DodderChairman, SAC Novice GroupCoordinator, Grand Canyon Star Party, 
North RimDirector, Stone Haven Observatory fester00@xxxxxxxxxxx 
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On Behalf Of Steven Dodder> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 6:11 PM> To: Az 
Observing> Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Daylight sighting of Venus> > IMHO, 
using a computer to point a telescope to find Venus in daylight is> cheating. 
Finding the RA/Dec, or Alt/Az is more like it. Finding it in> binoculars first 
is a great way to do it. Some people, (Derald Nye),> seem to have an innate 
ability, and I often invoke them to find it> myself. even when (manual) setting 
circles fail me.> My vision is insufficent, (so far) to detect Venus in 
daylight, but> I've managed to find all naked-eye planets through a finder 
scope and> main optics of my C8 in broad daylight-noon or so-from various 
observing> sites.> >
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