Thin Venus in Vis. and IR light

[tornado33]

Hi all
Located Venus in daylight round 3pm thisarvo, very large thin crescent as it rapidly moves westward to conjunction.

Used my modded Toucam, with 2 and 2.8x barlow for the colour vis. light shot (5.6x total magnification) with 10 inch f5.6 newtonian

The IR monochrome shot is with just the 2x barlow, and 800nm cutoff IR filter

Both a 30 sec run stacked and processed in Registax

venus located with Argo Navis after aligning on the Sun. Was all too easy to find
Scott

[middy]

Fantastic shots of Venus there.

I saw it visually tonight just after sunset and I have to say it is still remarkably bright to the naked eye considering it is now such a thin crescent.

[tornado33]

Thanks. Yes it was easy to see in the finderscope in the day, and so big even a visible crescent in the finder. I will see if I can follow it right across conjunction.
Scott

[Garyh]

Thats a beauty there Scott!! If the clouds part I might have a go at spotting it!!
cheers