Daytime Venus 20th August 2023

[lukebl]

I had a quick go at capturing Venus this afternoon in colour to capture something of what it looks like in the eyepiece.

It really is a beautiful sight in the eyepiece right now against the blue sky and only 2.8% illuminated, and only 14 degrees from the sun. The atmosphere was doing a wicked shimmy, so the image isn't particularly crisp.

ZWO ASI120MC-S color cam, 250mm f/4.8 Newtonian. c 2000 frames @ 0.5ms. Processed in Registax and Photoshop.

Here's an animation of a few of the frames. Focussing was tricky.

 

[orion25]

Brilliant, Luke! Nice crescent

 

 

[morimarty]

I think thats turned out very nice condidering the shimmering effect.

[Maurizio83]

Very beautiful with the blue sky!