Venus and Jupiter 03/02/12

[samtheeagle]

Lovely clear skies last night, and Venus was blazing away at me even before it had got dark, so I thought it would be rude not to. I've often wanted to try and get an image of Venus, but circumstances haven't been kind given the relatively small window of time that it's available... But last night worked out a treat

And while I was out in planetary capture mode I figured I'd have a throw at Jupiter.

These were captured with my C80-ED with a 2x barlow and a modded Microsoft LifeCam HD. All in all I'm very pleased with the results. I decided to use my refractor as I wanted to catch Venus as high up as possible, and didn't have the time for my Maksutov to cool down, and I've got to be honest, seeing how good the results are I'm seriosuly considering a long focal length refractor for planetary imaging now

[Clayton]

Very nice Sam

[Black Knight]

Very nice. Looks kike you captured the GRS too .

[Zul]

Great images!

[samtheeagle]

Thanks all

I was very pleasantly surprised with the results, given that the scope is generally considered a widefield deepsky beast.

[nightfisher]

really good Sam great images

[King]

Nice work! Venus is pretty difficult to master.