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Venus Over Notre Dame (Picture)
Monday, October 1, 2012 8:01
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Individual images taken of Venus in one year to create a full curve. The summer solstice being at the top, winter solstice at the bottom, and equinox where they lines cross. Infinity and beyond and Notre Dame.
How appropriate – the eternal figure of eight over Nostra Damus
This is not Norte Dame, and it is not Venus. Norta Dame doesn’t have completed spires.
It is Burgos Cathedral in Spain. And the object is the Sun, not Venus.
If you tried to take the same sort of photos of Venus, you’d have the sun in the middle of a bunch of them and you’d have to point the camera both to the east and west. The motions of an inferior planet (those inside the earth’s orbit) don’t look anything like that. Superior planetary orbits would show loops as the earth passed the planet. These loops show up when the planet is in retrograde motion.
It’s the sun and the images were taken through a very dark filter. You can see the sun’s disk in the image, but Venus subtends a 30 times smaller angle and it would never been seen as a disk. Venus also goes through phases and no phases are visible.
Here is a website from the guy who took the pictures.
http://blogs.elcorreo.com/el-navegante/2012/09/05/precioso-analema-de-jesus-pelaez/
Notre Dame is also in the middle of Paris and doesn’t have a tree covered hill near it.