First Quarter Venus - 16th Aug 2012

[King]

Phase: 50.5%

Diameter: 23.4"

Altitude: 27°

Time: 5:09am BST

Clouds came mid-shoot so I could only grab about 1900 frames.

3x barlow equipped.

Pity I didn't catch it yesterday at precisely 50.0, particularly given that I live in a region where that moment was viewable, but I did compose this summary of the occasion (the 12dstring scale image was for a x2.5 PowerMate which is why my next-day actual capture is larger):

[K3ny0n]

Lovely Venus mate.

Just a quick question about your Stellarium picture. Is that a plug in at the bottom of your screen which shows you the planets ect?

Rob

[King]

No, for the left image I used this FoV calculator: http://www.12dstring.me.uk/fov.htm

The one on the right is from Celestia which is free (and cool) to download.

[luis]

COOL !