Venus, September 6

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #1 14-09-2005, 11:19 PM

Well, I've had my new camera for about 2 weeks now, and guess what? It's been cloudy & raining almost the whole time. In fact, the only times it has cleared up was when I was away for a few days on business...

Okay, so this image is a bit old, but I haven't had *any* clear weather since then to grab anything better. I took this the day after the camera arrived, and it was new moon so Venus was the best bet.

I'm also about 1/2 way through building the 13.1" new scope, the wait for the new mirror is *killing me* :-)

Image details:

Scope: 10" f/6 newtonian
Camera: Dragonfly Express, 5x powermate
Filters: Green filter

2000 frames, exposure 20ms.
Resampled 1.5x in registax

Bird

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h0ughy (David) · #2 14-09-2005, 11:25 PM

very nice!

[1ponders] (Paul) · #3 14-09-2005, 11:53 PM

Very smooooth bird

Nice and sharp. If that's first light I think you're on a winner. Look out Jupiter and Saturn.

iceman (Mike) · #4 15-09-2005, 06:21 AM

Great Venus Bird, are you going to try the Wratten#47 next time? Apparently it can show some cloud details..

cometcatcher (Kevin) · #5 15-09-2005, 07:51 AM

Beautiful shading.

I'd also like to see it with one of those deep IR 1000nm filters. Or that might only be for the dark side when it's a thin crescent. I can't remember.

ving (David) · #6 15-09-2005, 09:51 AM

very nice sir, very nice

davidpretorius · #7 15-09-2005, 10:47 AM

excellent stuff, i am yet to try this one, even though it is so bright at the moment!!

asimov (John) · #8 15-09-2005, 06:48 PM

Wow! And I thought I was doing ok with my kodak!?

Very nice shot!

seeker372011 (Narayan) · #9 15-09-2005, 09:37 PM

superb

good to see posting images again!