First attempt photographing Venus due South

[King]

Having recently discovered I could "enable" the Sun for tracking with an SE mount I thought I'd give some daytime planetary a go.  Mercury is a bit close to the Sun for me to see it at the moment but I was able to do Venus.

[tingting44]

holy cow!! are they your daytime images? how the hell are you imaging planets with this ammount of detail during the day!

[King]

Just to clarify:  Height was 31 degrees.  The bordered image is the actual photo.  The bigger image on the left is a calsky.com rendering thrown in to help make sense of what's going on.

As for the result, well it's a great deal better than yesterday.  Venus was very flickery then; too much atmospheric disturbance, and clouds moved in before I could get a picture in.  Today was still a little on the windy side so I'd be surprised to get "any" detail.

[michaelmorris]

Nice picture.

[JamesF]

Excellent to catch Venus barely half-lit.  I definitely want to have a go at imaging it some time soon.

James