During my last visit to Mongolia, I saw the brightest Venus I have ever laid eyes on. It was a flight that might technically count as a night flight, though we actually took off from Frankfurt (FRA) in the early afternoon and landed in Ulaanbaatar (UBN) late in the evening—according to our internal clocks, at least. In reality, however, the next morning had already dawned. I looked out the window and saw the beautiful colors; suddenly, I thought: Venus couldn't possibly shine *that* brightly—I had never seen it look like that before. "Right," I thought, "I’ll just snap a quick photo." No sooner said than done. I basked for a while in the thought of this exceptionally bright Venus, only to be distracted by a sharply defined, very dark cloud in the sky. That is, until I realized that the dark cloud was actually a wing... and the Venus was a light at the wingtip? No, no, no! I won't let anyone convince me otherwise. Wingtip lights are position lights, and they flash. But this light was steady and clear—so it *was* Venus (Q.E.D.). No, I won't be swayed; I saw the brightest Venus ever seen on this planet.
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