brightness of Venus Options

[ncc1701d]

I was wondering.
If Venus reflects 70 percent of the sunlight that hits it.
If I was in spaceship on approach to that planet could I look at it with the naked eye out the window and not get blinded?
Would I have to at least use sunglasses?

I am wondering to how much brightness reduction is going on when processing the images before they are release to public or analized.
thanks

[bkellysky]

Last night, I was taking pictures of Venus, et al., after sunset, when someone asked me what the bright light next to the moon was. He said he figured I'd know, since I had the camera/tripod set up. I told him it was Venus and that some of the other dots to the upper left were a bright star, and the planets Mars and Saturn. "But you can't see those," he said and resumed walking around the track as I called after him, "Yes, you can if look when you are on the darker side of the track....." Maybe if I had the telescope and after looking though the scope, I had pointed out in the sky what we were looking at, he might have understood.
Amazing what people think they can't see, and really could if they looked for a moment.
Of course, that's when people start moving away from the crazy guy with the camera.....

Here's the Moon and Venus, cropped from a larger photo posted at bkellysky.wordpress.com....
Notice the earthshine on the Moon and the dot of light at the lower left end of the lunar crescent, separated from rest of the sunlit portion. This is likely a lunar mountain or crater wall sticking up into the sunlight, but I didn't have my binoculars to check.
Venus is an overexposed blob, but I've included it here for comparison.

bob

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