Venus Tonight

[rogerg]

I got home and as I was carrying some more building materials out to my observatory from the car when I noticed Venus just in the right spot for imaging! The rush was on!

There's only a window of about 30 minutes where I can see Venus from my observatory. My west horizon is, well, not a horizon, it's almost a zenith.

My observatory is like a bomb hit it after several weeks of "renovations". I plugged in the power to the UPS, the network cable to the hub (all of which is lying chaotically on the floor in a pile of cables under the desk), got my webcam and eyepiece from the house (half the observatory is currently in the house) and to my amazement that was enough that the computer complete with scope connection and webcam worked! I was speachless.

I didn't even trip over any of the building materials and stuff lying all over the floor either!

Anyway, not a fantastic image, but something. One of these days, when I have a better horizon, I'll get some detail on Venus, that'd be great.

:)

[iceman]

HI Roger, that's a nice Venus image. But you've got some horrible colour shift there due to the object being low on the horizon.

Open up the channels tab in photoshop and click thru the red/green/blue channels and use the MOVE tool to re-align them. It will look heaps better! I'm guessing it will need a shift of 2 pixels right for the red and 2 pixels left for the blue (or there abouts).

Great image.

[rogerg]

Ahh, thanks!

(I did notice it was phasing in and out of our space-time continuum while I was recording the video...)

:)

[iceman]

Much better! :thumbsup:

[Dennis]

Very nice Roger. The observatory is looking good too.

Cheers

Dennis