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.
