Venus, Tuesday 8pm

[bird]

Grabbed a few thousand frames of Venus through the heat shimmer just after sunset.

10" f/6 newtonian @ f/48 via 5x powermate + extension
Lumenera LU075M camera
2000 frames stacked out of 6000
Exposure 2ms, 30fps
Red Astronomik filter

Image has not been resized - this is the "real" size!

regards, Bird

[ballaratdragons]

That is superb Bird!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

That is probably the finest Venus pic I have ever seen!

Well done Anthony. I am Gob-smacked!

[videoguy]

Very nice mate! Great image scale.

[bird]

Pity it's covered in cloud... would be an awesome sight if it had a visible surface ...

Bird

[videoguy]

Know what you mean Bird.. I've often wondered how cool it would be to get a view of the nearest terrestrial world without the white cloak. Wow 50 arcseconds of detail! It would also be great if we had a full rotation view of the Moon for that matter!

[videoguy]

Well actually it'd be mostly in the dark then lol :-)

[bird]

Chasing the terminator is always fun.

[iceman]

Very very nice Anthony, it's huge! Like Ken, probably one of the finest Venus pics i've ever seen.

[davidpretorius]

you knocked off asimov's as the best i have seen. Both of yours are lovely and sharp.

through heat shimmer you say,

i have to shoot this over my own roof, so i will give it a go as well if lots of frames clean it up

[ving]

gotta love venus hey :D
nice one.

[asimov]

Lovely Anthony! Well done mate.:)

[Dennis]

Stunning image Anthony - great job!

Cheers

Dennis