When was Venus first seen?, page 1

reply to post by BeastMaster2012

My first question is when was Venus first observed?

This is a very good question and one might be able to find evidence that the planet Venus was first observed in fairly resent history.

I had always thought, as we were told, that all of the planets have been in their present orbits for around 4.5 billion years therefore I considered the planet Venus to be very boring for astronomical study. That was until I read a thread here on ATS about Venus possibly once having been a comet. It was from the research I did on this question that I quickly found Venus to be far from boring. Some of what I learned is posted in the thread, "Was The Planet Venus a Comet?"

The orbital mechanics of Earth/Venus resonance and tidal locking now has made it one of the most interesting planets for study in my opinion. Not only does Venus align with Earth 5 times every 8 years to create a pentagram as you have pointed out,

the same side faces Earth during each of these synodic alignments (or inferior conjunctions), "Venus Tidal locking", and it nearly realigns back to the original position (off by 2.44 days).

This Earth/Venus synodic pentagram (8 years) slowly advances clockwise by 2.44 days which is commensurate with Venus' rotation (also clockwise in just over 243 days) in a very predictable transit recurrence cycle of 243 years. A complete realignment of these transit cycles takes 1215 years (243 x 5=1215).

I have a hard time thinking that these commensurate orbital/rational cycles between Earth and Venus are just a coincidence (2.44 days- 243 days- 243 yrs). The discrepancy between 2.44 days and 2.43 is due to another motion between these two planets, the slow migration of the orbital nodes which cause Venus to transit the Sun.

Here are some more fun facts about the planet Venus;

Venus is the closest planet to Earth.
Venus has an ion tail similar to comets that touch the Earth during transits.
Venus has no magnetic field protecting its atmosphere from the Sun's solar wind yet this atmosphere is 90 times more dense than Earth's.
The surface of Venus appears to have undergone a global resurfacing in the recent past.

The connection between Venus to ancient myths, culture, calendars and apocalyptic events is staggering. The planet Venus seems to have been associated in a very big way to an unveiling of sacred knowledge yet today we regard all of this as pseudo-science or superstitious nonsense.
Could there be a connection between the supposed appearance of Venus and the global change in Earth's calendar from 360 days to 365.24219?