venus this evening, its big!
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18 years 11 months ago #20771
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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.
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18 years 11 months ago #20774
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Wow! It's big alright, nice job Dave. I had a look through the etx 70 on christmas day, at only 11% phase - looked lovely
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18 years 11 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!!
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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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18 years 11 months ago #20851
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Beautiful picture Dave - one could almost mistake it for a blurry Moon, it appears so big!
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18 years 11 months ago #20852
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+ 12"LX200, MK67, Meade2045, 4"refractor
Replied by dave_lillis on topic Re: venus this evening, its big!
Thats what I was thinking !, thanks for the kind words.
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18 years 11 months ago #21058
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Regards and Clear Skies,
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Jeex Dave thats a fabulous image. Its hard to say for definite but there looks to be some cloud markings even in that thin crescent.
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