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Old 07-06-2012, 09:38 AM
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Venus parallax

To add some more substance to all this picture taking yesterday, with the help of my relative who lives in Europe, I tried to measure the Venus parallax..

The result of superposition of 3 frames (his frame of third contact was rescaled, rotated and registered on the combination of two frames I took with time difference of ~5 hours) is attached..

The red path was as visible from Maribor, Slovenia, the blue one was as visible from Melbourne.

During those 5 hours, Sun also rotated, and this is visible on the final picture as double sunspots.

Image is original scale, 1.1arcsec/pixel (MTO1100A, Canon400D in prime focus). On the picture, North is to the left.
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