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Old 02-06-2020, 03:47 AM
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Another image with the Venuscope

This noon (Europe == 21:00 AEST) I saw Venus only four degrees from the Sun as a very thin crescent using my ED110 with an extended sunshade from black cardboard (hence called 'Venuscope'). There was lots of turbulence and pollen floating like snow in the air.


I put my Sony RX100M6 behind the eyepiece and filmed (resulting in a very shaky image) and extracten a moving gif from it. Most frames are blurry but some are sharp showing the horns extending rather far.


At a similar event on 6 June 2004 (also two days before the inferior conjunction) I failed to see it with my 100mm Televue Genesis.


So this is a record for me and won't happen until 1 June 2028 after the end of this week.


Here the gif (I could not post it on the forum) :

https://www.skysurfer.eu/planets/venus-20200601.gif
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