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Venus almost gone , and Venus last light on lunar limb sketches
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Venus almost gone
Meade LX 90 FL 2000mm
35mm eyepiece = 57X
Dec 1st 2008 - Greystones Co Wicklow
Freezing
15:20UT
Pastels/Conte on black paper
With minutes to got to the occultation of Venus I quickly did this sketch on the
side of a nice quiet road in Greystones. A one point the bone chilling wind blew my page
and Venus with it off the easel, and it almost escaped.
The moon was just about visible in the milky white/blue sky. Venus sparkled
in the same field of view, and what a view it was. I ignored Jupiter for all the sketches
as it was not possible to get it in the same field, unless I did a series of naked eye sketches, but there was no time to do sort that out.
As the Gibbous Venus blinked out against the invisible limb of the young moon , the light shining from it seemed to momentarily light up a small section of the lunar disc. Judging it by the size of crater Petavius, the last seconds of light visible from the planet must have lit up around 100 miles of the limb. This may have been a trick of the lens/light so to speak not too sure , let me know if anyone else observed it.
Last light of Venus on lunar limb
Deirdre Kelleghan
PRO IFAS
President IAS
Venus almost gone , and Venus last light on lunar limb sketches was created by DeirdreKelleghan
Venus almost gone
Meade LX 90 FL 2000mm
35mm eyepiece = 57X
Dec 1st 2008 - Greystones Co Wicklow
Freezing
15:20UT
Pastels/Conte on black paper
With minutes to got to the occultation of Venus I quickly did this sketch on the
side of a nice quiet road in Greystones. A one point the bone chilling wind blew my page
and Venus with it off the easel, and it almost escaped.
The moon was just about visible in the milky white/blue sky. Venus sparkled
in the same field of view, and what a view it was. I ignored Jupiter for all the sketches
as it was not possible to get it in the same field, unless I did a series of naked eye sketches, but there was no time to do sort that out.
As the Gibbous Venus blinked out against the invisible limb of the young moon , the light shining from it seemed to momentarily light up a small section of the lunar disc. Judging it by the size of crater Petavius, the last seconds of light visible from the planet must have lit up around 100 miles of the limb. This may have been a trick of the lens/light so to speak not too sure , let me know if anyone else observed it.
Last light of Venus on lunar limb
Deirdre Kelleghan
PRO IFAS
President IAS
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