Venus & the Moon

[EA2007]

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Olympus E-400, 200iso, 1/4sec

[Taff]

Nice capture of them both.Taff

[EA2007]

Cheers.

I had been watching the weather all afternoon and when it got to sunset I thought I would have a look at Venus, mainly because I had re-collimated my newtonian the other day. Anways I noticed that Miss Moon was out and thought, "I can possibly fit those two into a nice widefield shot".

So, whipped out the dSLR and got shooting, however I soon realsied that I should have charged the old battery up cos' it said battery flat after a few goes........(the ones to get it focused).

However, I find that with these rechargable batteries that if you leave them off for a few mins then go back to them you can get a few more images out of them...so I did that. My inital shots were taken inside through a window (if I had gone outside I would have been too low down to get the Moon and Venus would have been obscured by the neighbours houses.).

There is a major issue with shooting through a window, the glass warps the image, so I opened up the window and this is one of those images.

I did manage to train my scope onto the moon and it was showing an amazing crescent of about 5% with lovely Earth-glow but the battery was completely gone by then!

Ed

[narrowbandpaul]

very nice ed. very nice.

i saw this today driving in glasgow. i would have looked more, but i may have hit someone. And that would have damaged my car!

glad you got newt collimated. What size, ahem, if yours?

paully

[EA2007]

I took the pic especially for you Paul, i know how you like lunar images so much

Anyway, you should have been flying not driving!

I have a nice long and black 8 incher if you must know......impresses the ladies! But yeh, it needed collimating, I would get some shots tonight now that my cameras battery is charged, but the cloud may be an issue.

[narrowbandpaul]

my 12" impresses ladies too.

I love inuendo...always funny

unfortunately theres not an airport next to my house. My road has speed bumps, but im not sure if the plane could take that at 60mph or so.

got to go. Lisa Pathfinder wont build itself.....