Venus - 16 August 2018

[MarsG76]

Hi All,

I started my session on the 16th August at the eyepiece. Venus was a bit less than half phase and had what looked like shading within, especially near the terminator. The disc was quite big at 290X and had a little bit of chromatic aberrations at the lit side, Venus looked great in the eyepiece so I captured a few 2950 frame videos of Venus and stacked the best 450. The resut is quite plain but this is only RGB, no UV capture so cloud structure did not come out.

Honestly Venus looked better in the eyepiece than how the image came out.

Clear Skies.

MG

[Charic]

58 minutes ago, MarsG76 said:

Honestly Venus looked better in the eyepiece than how the image cane out. [sic]

I have seen the  Venus crescent, and yes, amazing in the scope visually

[Pete Presland]

Very nicely captured. I was surprised how low Venus had at transit in the UK, when i looked the other day. Not had a chance to image it for a while.

[MarsG76]

30 minutes ago, Pete Presland said:

Very nicely captured. I was surprised how low Venus had at transit in the UK, when i looked the other day. Not had a chance to image it for a while.

transit?

 

[kev]

Probably daytime observation.  I do that too.   

[MarsG76]

8 minutes ago, kev said:

Probably daytime observation.  I do that too.   

Yeah, but I thought that the next transit of Venus isn't until 2112.

[MarsG76]

12 hours ago, Charic said:

I have seen the  Venus crescent, and yes, amazing in the scope visually

Theres something special about it when viewed in the eyepiece in a steady sky.....

[Pete Presland]

11 hours ago, MarsG76 said:

transit?

 

Sorry,  didn't write that very well. I meant transiting the meridian, it's highest point after rising above the horizon. 

[MarsG76]

8 hours ago, Pete Presland said:

Sorry,  didn't write that very well. I meant transiting the meridian, it's highest point after rising above the horizon. 

For a moment I thought we had rip in time and space and SGL was a wormhole...

[Pete Presland]

7 hours ago, MarsG76 said:

For a moment I thought we had rip in time and space and SGL was a wormhole...

Shame there wasn't a Venus transit happening. We were totally clouded out during the last one.

I saw the Mercury transit though ?

On 30/08/2018 at 08:13, MarsG76 said:

transit?

 

Sorry,  didn't write that very well. I meant transiting the meridian, it's highest point after rising above the horizon. 

[MarsG76]

52 minutes ago, Pete Presland said:

We were totally clouded out during the last one.

We were lucky down here, some cloud but mostly lit by sunshine... I was at work during the transit but I happened to disappear for a while as it was happening... I just had my 800mm Lens and a makeshift solar filter for it.... I do regret not "being sick" on that day and taking some telescopic shots... Oh well.. next time ? in 99 years... cant wait.... hmm

 

[louizi]

On 29/08/2018 at 21:07, MarsG76 said:

Honestly Venus looked better in the eyepiece than how the image came out.

Clear Skies. 

I have seen Venus this morning too across the southeast skies over Nigeria. I think I can proudly say that am among the very few (really really very few) Nigerians that have seen Venus through a telescope. Its a cool sight

[MarsG76]

19 hours ago, louizi said:

I have seen Venus this morning too across the southeast skies over Nigeria. I think I can proudly say that am among the very few (really really very few) Nigerians that have seen Venus through a telescope. Its a cool sight

Yes agreed, there is something mesmerising about venus in the eyepiece...