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Old 13-05-2018, 09:43 AM
Wavytone
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Annette that’s not really an image of Venus - what you have captured is the out-of-focus disk of light from Venus. If you had the iPhone exactly at focus the image (and what you’ll see using your eye) is a bright disk filling the aperture of your scope, not an image of Venus !

To obtain an image you need an eyepiece to produce an afocal beam - exactly as you would see looking into a telescope.

The next issue is that if you can get an eyepiece onto the back of that mirror lens you’re going to find the image of Venus is disappointingly small - the focal length and resolution of that mirror lens are both hopelessly too small and you DO need a rather larger telescope.

Now THIs is a nice picture of Venus https://artsandculture.google.com/as...Vg?hl=en&avm=2
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