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Hi Peter,
               Do you think it may be possible to do a Luna distance with 
Venus during the day,has any one on Nav List tried.
Regards Paul.

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:09 NZST P H wrote:

>Indeed, perhaps including lunar distance measurements.
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>Peter Hakel
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>From: Marcel Tschudin 
>To: NavList@navlist.net
>Sent: Sun, September 12, 2010 3:26:38 AM
>Subject: [NavList] Re: Venus During the day.
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>Frank, you wrote:
>"After I read your message about half an hour ago, I pulled out my
>phone and launched Google Sky Map. Aha, I see that Venus is right next
>to the Moon. I stepped outside but couldn't find the Moon. I pulled
>out the phone again, and aimed it where it told me to, and... aha...
>there's that pale crescent. Then I just shot a bunch of photos."
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>I appreciate your attitude to just try something without pondering too
>much on the ifs, pros and cons. Your courage for experimenting
>indicates that it seems indeed possible to use a camera for
>CN-observations during daylight. It would be interesting the result
>one would obtain from such a Moon-Venus or (probably soon) a
>Moon-Jupiter observation during daytime (or twilight) with a
>calibrated camera.
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>Marcel
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