Sun
Venus'
Orbit on its
Equant
Earth
Plot Venus on the Equant Circle using only the date, elongation angle, and brightness. Venus will be on the circle. In this
plot, the Earth is “at the Center” and Venus runs around a circle between the Earth and Sun. You'll draw lines from the
center of the Earth to the position on the circle corresponding to the elongation angle, and mark its date where Venus is
seen. Ignore phase to plot the data here. These would be data taken prior to using a telescope.
A sample data point from the exercise is partly place, but which is the correct location of Venus of the two?