Venus, 30 Aug

[brianb]

Venus is now a thick crescent, just past greastest eastern elongation and is growing in size. Unfortunately it's also well south of the Sun so badly placed for observation.

I imaged it in full daylight when at its greatest altitude, unfortunately the seeing was too bad to use anything but an infra-red pass filter.

1523 UT. William Optics FLT 110, 4x Imagemate, Astronomik Planet Pro 807 IR pass filter, Imaging Source DMK21 camera.

Diameter 27.9 arc sec. Altitude 23.2 degrees. Transparency good, seeing very poor with continuous rapid boiling. Temp 17C, wind N force 3.

[johnkirkpatrick]

Great, Still not seen this one my self will have to add it to my "to do" list;)

[Dave Smith]

Nice one Brian, nice to see someone else tackling Venus. I do have an IR pass filter so may try that as well as the suggested red.

Dave

[johnh]

Nice effort, Venus seems tough in IR to get any detail, may have a go middle Sept when its bigger. I can see it just in daylight but don't have shelter of an Obsy so can't see computer screen.

John.

[brianb]

don't have shelter of an Obsy so can't see computer screen.

I use a plastic box to shield the laptop ... open side faces me ...