Nightflight to Venis
Way out there in space
Nightflight to Vee n uus !!
Our new fav'right place
A picture of Thiruvallikkeni Sri Parthasarathi Perumal Rajagopuram taken on 19.5.2026 at around 18.56 hours ! – the light flare and colour edited to make this appear as it is now.
On the evening of 19 May 2026, a very thin crescent Moon appeared close to Venus in the western sky and was widely reported as a striking conjunction visible all over India after sunset. Astronomy forecasts for that date mention the Moon passing near Venus on 18–19 May, with Jupiter also in the same general area but fainter and higher, making the brightest object near the Moon in the early evening unmistakably Venus.
Perplexity search states that in this image, the bright point of light just below‑left of the Moon matches exactly where Venus would appear: low in the west, near a slim crescent Moon, shortly after sunset from Chennai. The “spray” or flare pattern above the Gopuram and around the lights is lens flare and scattering caused by strong point light sources (the decorative and flood lights) shining directly into the camera lens. This is common in night photos where bright lights are in or near the frame.
Multiple internal reflections between the glass elements of phone lens create radial streaks and ghost images, especially when the lens is slightly dusty or has micro‑scratches. The small secondary “moon” closer to the top of the gopuram is also a lens‑flare ghost of the real Moon, produced by the same internal reflections when you have a very bright object against a dark sky.
Venus, the second planet from the sun, is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty and is the only planet named after a female. Venus may have been named after the most beautiful deity of the pantheon because it shone the brightest among the five planets known to ancient astronomers.
The words at the start
are the lyrics of a famous Album released in 1978 by Boney M. Nightflight to Venus is the third studio album by
Euro-Caribbean group Boney M., and became a major success in continental
Europe, Scandinavia, and Canada, topping most of the album charts during the
second half of 1978 and also became their first UK number one album. In Canada,
it received a nomination for a 1980 Juno Award in a category 'International
Album of the Year'. Nightflight to Venus includes the worldwide hits
"Rivers of Babylon" and "Brown Girl in the Ring", a double
A-sided single that topped the UK singles chart and has sold over 2 million
copies there. The follow-up was another Boney M. classic, "Rasputin”.
23.5.2026
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