venus this evening, its big!
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18 years 8 months ago #20771
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Carrying around my 20" obsession is going to kill me,
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venus this evening, its big! was created by dave_lillis
Lads,
Here's an image of venus through the 12" this evening, it looked enourmous through the scope with a 26mm eyepiece.
www.irishastronomy.org/user_resources/fi...35707308-venus2a.jpg
This is a uncropped image, so you can see the planet is massive at the moment, nearly 1 arc-minute across.
I stacked 300 images in registax, Venus was just starting to go behind a chimney stack at this stage, so the seeing was all over then place, registax does a remarkable job of compensating for the atmospheric dispersion, eliminating the red and blue edges.
Here's an image of venus through the 12" this evening, it looked enourmous through the scope with a 26mm eyepiece.
www.irishastronomy.org/user_resources/fi...35707308-venus2a.jpg
This is a uncropped image, so you can see the planet is massive at the moment, nearly 1 arc-minute across.
I stacked 300 images in registax, Venus was just starting to go behind a chimney stack at this stage, so the seeing was all over then place, registax does a remarkable job of compensating for the atmospheric dispersion, eliminating the red and blue edges.
Dave L. on facebook , See my images in flickr
Chairman. Shannonside Astronomy Club (Limerick)
Carrying around my 20" obsession is going to kill me,
but what a way to go.
+ 12"LX200, MK67, Meade2045, 4"refractor
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18 years 8 months ago #20781
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coruscations attending the whole length of the luminosity, giving to the phenomena the aspect of a wrathful messenger, and not that of a tranquil body pursuing a harmless course..comet of 1680
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Thats stunning Dave!! 
Martin Mc Kenna
coruscations attending the whole length of the luminosity, giving to the phenomena the aspect of a wrathful messenger, and not that of a tranquil body pursuing a harmless course..comet of 1680
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18 years 8 months ago #20852
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Dave L. on facebook , See my images in flickr
Chairman. Shannonside Astronomy Club (Limerick)
Carrying around my 20" obsession is going to kill me,
but what a way to go.
+ 12"LX200, MK67, Meade2045, 4"refractor
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Thats what I was thinking !, thanks for the kind words.
Dave L. on facebook , See my images in flickr
Chairman. Shannonside Astronomy Club (Limerick)
Carrying around my 20" obsession is going to kill me,
but what a way to go.
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