Only Camera AP: Spikey Venus; Little Mars

[Rihard]

Hello Folks,

Saint Patrick gave us some sweet views of Venus, Jupiter and (I believe) Mars here in Ireland this evening. (Someone please confirm if that's Mars or am I looking at the wrong Reddish object? )

Since I'm still awaiting for my telescope to be delivered I could only take a snap of this sweet view with my cheap Sigma Zoom attached to my beloved Nikon D3100.

Stopping down a little bit (from f/5 to f/8), Venus showed some cool spikes, so I wanted to share my little records. Nothing to do with the stunning detailed pictures that many of you post daily though. Atmosphere wasn't very stable; taken over roofs and orange public lights

Of course if any of you have some tips on how to get better results with this kind of setup (which is dSLR, 300 MM Sigma Zoom and cheap tripod ) feel free to comment

Please click on the images to see more "detail"

[Starlight 1]

If you put in the time of night , you can work it out by the Stars.

I am not that good to work it out but a Star program can.

[Rihard]

If you put in the time of night , you can work it out by the Stars.

I am not that good to work it out but a Star program can.

I normally use Stellarium but I was getting ready to go to the pub to celebrate a bit S.Patrick since I worked all day so I ignored that ...

[Starlight 1]

Hope you had a nice Saint Patrick day.

[Rihard]

Hope you had a nice Saint Patrick day.

Thank you For the little I remember today, it was good fun...

[garethmob]

I usually bung my pics into here. How ever.bad as one really bad one once showed me summet was there I hadnt noticed

http://www.flickr.com/groups/astrometry/

You need a flikr account. Upload the pics to your account then add them

To the group pool of astrometry

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[Rihard]

I usually bung my pics into here. How ever.bad as one really bad one once showed me summet was there I hadnt noticed

Flickr: astrometry

You need a flikr account. Upload the pics to your account then add them

To the group pool of astrometry

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Garethmob: that's a good idea. I also use that on flickr but since I don't have a pro account, I'm not uploading "cheap" pictures anymore . From time to time, depending on the picture, Astrometry might not be able to identify the objects on them. Anyway I think I will give it a try

Garethmob, what is your flickr page? I will be glad to take a look at your pics there. Mine is this one: Flickr: Tziu Riky's Photostream

Best Regards

Rik

[garethmob]

mines garethmob im not sure of the link

iv posted some really bad pics but iv wanted to know where my blind areas of sky while iv tried to get focusing right av been