ISS Close Pass to Venus tonight from Adelaide.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Hi all,

There is a close pass (almost transit) of Venus to the ISS tonight. They will appear very close together at 22:22 tonight. I am hoping to get it onto video through my Telescope, so hopefully I will be able to, have to test settings to make sure I can get both exposed ok.. only expecting a blip to move near the crescent Venus... Anyone else in Adelaide giving this a go?

[swannies1983 (Dan)]

Cheers for the heads up. Will go out later but it's quite cloudy down here at the moment.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Not good Dan, I setup for an earlier pass near Canopus and got it..

Sorry about the Audio, I was almost excited.... Taken through my 80mm f5.6 refractor, Canon 1100D.

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[swannies1983 (Dan)]

haha, nice work. Reminds me when I used to go outside imaging and I had to keep the dogs away from the telescope.

It's clearing up down this way so I might be lucky.

[swannies1983 (Dan)]

Take that back. All clouded out.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

It was almost a wash out, I threw the barlow and extension tube on the 80mm scope and shot it like that, missed by a very small amount Uploading video now.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Video of the close encounter...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs2o8...ature=youtu.be

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Looking at this image, I put the ISS around 2.7arcmins from the planet, does this look about right? I use skymap to give me the planets diameter...

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

and the view through my 80mm f5.6 scope, as the ISS passed by Canopus earlier in the evening.. Canon 1100D movie mode.