Haha ! Think I got Venus from a less common location?

[MrManQ]

Not been around the forum for a while, but have been keeping my head tilting back.

I flew back from fuertevenura yesterday and at 710pm I was over Exeter, northbound to Manchester. 

I opened the blind and was amazed at the dusk view and was equally amazed at being able to see the curvature of the Earth.... Even if it was ever so slightly.

I took a photo with my Nexus 6P, thinking "cool... I got a star in on the deal."

I've just loaded up stallarium and wound back, faced West and boom, I've only gone and captured Venus.... Cheeky little minx.... Or at least I'm sure I have done, I think it's brighter than Mars at this time? Took a good few shots to get the, then thought, star as clear as possible.

So anyway, here is my original photo with the annoying, unavoidable reflections from the cabin window.   And then there's the same photo with the assistance of some light adjustments on the same phone.

Please remember, I was capturing a nice view more so then trying to astrophotographise

How pretty though?

Edit: added stallarium view too.

[Stub Mandrel]

Neat!

I like the colour in No.1 best :-)

[MrManQ]

6 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Neat!

I like the colour in No.1 best :-)

Yes the original does retain a lot of the beauty.  

[laudropb]

Very nice capture from a very unusual place. I prefer the first image to.

[Pete Presland]

Fabulous capture!

[Knighty2112]

Well done. Great capture!  

[johnfosteruk]

Great capture, I too prefer No.1

[Stu]

Nice one, always good to see something from a different perspective. Shame Stellarium doesn't have an 'aircraft view'  

[David Levi]

Is this really Venus? The last time I looked at Venus was about 3 weeks ago and it was a crescent then.

[MrManQ]

5 hours ago, David Levi said:

Is this really Venus? The last time I looked at Venus was about 3 weeks ago and it was a crescent then.

Yes.  Bear in mind it's on a phone camera, through two sheets of toughened, weathered window glass.

 

It's by no means ideal enough to avoid distortion of both shape and colour.

 

It was the only thing I could see in the West, and Venus is our brightest thing in the night sky at the moment.