Venus?

[Carl]

Hi all

While playing my PS2 just about ten mins ago,I saw a really really bright star, it was easy as bright as the moon.

So i turned of my PS2,I then rushed to my Celestron firstscope 114 eq (F=900mm F/8 :clouds2:) I then put in my 10mm e/p (casue of the field of view) it took me about 5 mins to get it in view (and by that time it was nearly setting down pass the houses in my back garden :clouds2:).

When it was in view and focus i saw something that puzzled me............................................

The star was not a normal star it hasd a cresent phase(just like venus).

And anyway i just wanded (because i ain`t got no December star map) if this star was Venus.If it wasn`t does anybody know what star it was.

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-Cheers-

=Moonhunter=

[The Warthog]

That bright, in the west at evening = Venus. No doubt.

[Carl]

That bright, in the west at evening = Venus. No doubt.

Cheers Warthog

I feel like such a :knob: for asking because just after i posted it i found the topic "Venus" with pics of Venus with looked a bit like what i saw( but smaller).

I`m sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited now i`ve got a 16:00 date with Venus tommorrow

[GazOC]

Nice one Carl, it certainly is bright isn't it?

[The Warthog]

"She's Venus in blue jeans

Mona Lisa with a ponytail

She's a-walkin' talkin' work of art

She's the girl who stole my heart

My Venus in blue jeans

Is the Cinderella I adore..."

Have a great date!

[GazOC]

I've got a bleedy house in between me a Venus!!!

[daz]

So have I - MINE!!!!!!

By the time I get home from work (which is of course clear) and drag the gear out the front, it's gone

Still, holidays coming up so might get a chance then

[Carl]

I've got a bleedy house in between me a Venus!!!

I`m the same.But i will be able to catch Venus before she sets behind them?(I`ve also got a couple of trees on my left side of the Garden)(they are not mine)and three big trees on my right). 

[daz]

I Santa bringing you a tree-lopper?

[Carl]

I Santa bringing you a tree-lopper?

Nope but i wouldn`t mind him to.my next door neighbours on the left have started to cut down there trees.

[Carl]

It`s blumming cloundy down here clounds are turn more gray by the minute .So i might not be able to see Venus to(night/day).unfair .

Is Venus really white or is it that redey orangey colour or is it my telescope?

[Carl]

Still blumming :x i hate :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x

[GazOC]

It`s blumming cloundy down here clounds are turn more gray by the minute .So i might not be able to see Venus to(night/day).unfair .

Is Venus really white or is it that redey orangey colour or is it my telescope?

Carl,

Its white, with it being so low down the atmosphere will be playing its tricks with the color.

Gaz

[Ant]

Don't worry Carl, as gaz said it's the atmosphere.

As an object gets lower in the sky it [the light] has to travel through more atmosphere - as it's coming in at an angle. The atmosphere absorbs more blue light then red (hence the blue sky) and the colour is shifted towards the red end...

Ant

[Carl]

It`s blumming cloundy down here clounds are turn more gray by the minute .So i might not be able to see Venus to(night/day).unfair .

Is Venus really white or is it that redey orangey colour or is it my telescope?

Carl,

Its white, with it being so low down the atmosphere will be playing its tricks with the color.

Gaz

When i saw Venus it was white.I just wanted to know what colour it was because in some of the astronomy mags/pictures it`s that redy orangy colour.

-cheers you guys-

[Carl]

Y is it when i see something i want to observe,Venus for example it`s always ? :x

Does anyone else have this problem?

[Ant]

Yep, it's something that you get used to mate.

Thats why some much happens when we finally get a clear night...

Ant

[daz]

... and are late for work / throw a sicky the next day.

Not that we would, of course

[Carl]

I`m sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

happy.There were no and i finally got my chance to see Venus again.But this time with the Celestron Omni Plossl 6mm Eyepiece.lovely jubbly,and i also got to see a Boeing 747 for about 2 or 3 secs.But it`s still something at the end of the day.I`m, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo chuffed.Venus look well clear with the 6mm it look liked i had a expensive scope. woooooohoooooo rock on. :hello1: :walk: :wav: :thumbup: :thumbleft: :clouds2: :occasion5: :occasion5: :occasion5: :occasion5: :tongue1: :tongue3: :tongue4: :tongue5: :tongue6: :tongue7: :toothy10: :toothy9: :toothy8: :toothy7:

[daz]

Nice going Carl

Pleased you finally got to see it, and by the sounds of it, it was worth the wait!

[CELESCOPE]

Hi Caz one of our members on the ukastro imaging who is a close friend of patrick moore , his name is pete lawrence ,take a read of this

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/venus/shadow-of-venus.html

he is well into this type of astro

ROG

[CELESCOPE]

no i,m still not sure lol what you mean its at its brightest we know so maybe explain what you mean ????

[Astroman]

When Venus is in its cresent form, whats casting the shadow?

The planet is casting the shadow. The phases of Mercury and Venus are the same phenomena as the phases of theMoon-our viewing angle between the Sun and the respective body.