Venus over the last 6 months

Shiraz (Ray) · #1 04-10-2010, 09:41 PM

Venus is about to drop down between us and the Sun. Attached is a summary of how it has appeared over the months from back in April, when it was a tiny dot coming up from the other side of the sun.

The images are of widely varying quality, since I did not have access to a proper imaging system through most of August - however, even the poor quality images are useful for this type of presentation and it has been fun to follow the progress of our sister planet over the months.

thanks for looking.

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #2 04-10-2010, 09:56 PM

Well done a lot of detail. Good shows the size of venus over the period.

Shiraz (Ray) · #3 04-10-2010, 10:07 PM

Hi Malcolm. Thanks for your kind comments.
regards Ray

John Hothersall · #4 04-10-2010, 10:15 PM

Very good collection shows the changes nicely over a good length of time.

John.

hotspur (Chris) · #5 04-10-2010, 10:20 PM

Excellent project,with fine results-this is lovely to see!

This could be used as a great tool to explain phases of Venus.

As well as being a lovely art work to frame.

Well Done,indeed! Chris

Shiraz (Ray) · #6 04-10-2010, 10:31 PM

Hi John and Chris

Thanks. I really enjoyed doing this and appreciate your positive comments.

regards Ray

edwardsdj (Doug) · #7 05-10-2010, 12:01 AM

Very nice sequence Ray.

Shiraz (Ray) · #8 05-10-2010, 12:16 AM

Thanks Doug
regards Ray

michaellxv (Michael) · #9 05-10-2010, 12:36 AM

Nice presentation Ray. Well done on the extended effort to gather the data.

Shiraz (Ray) · #10 05-10-2010, 10:15 AM

Thanks Michael
Have you imaged Venus with the 80GTL?
regards Ray

Quark (Trevor) · #11 05-10-2010, 12:33 PM

A very well presented record of our sister planet there Ray.
Thanks very much for sharing.

Regards
Trevor

Shiraz (Ray) · #12 05-10-2010, 06:20 PM

Hi Trevor
thanks for your kind comment
regards Ray

venus (Lydia) · #13 05-10-2010, 07:12 PM

Hi Ray, the resulting image from all your hard work is amazing thanks for sharing.
ps:you should submit this image to one of the astro magazines I'm sure they would be interested.

michaellxv (Michael) · #14 05-10-2010, 10:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shiraz

Thanks Michael
Have you imaged Venus with the 80GTL?
regards Ray

No I haven't. I could come up with all sorts of excuses, but they are just that.

Shiraz (Ray) · #15 06-10-2010, 11:12 AM

hi lydia. thanks very much for your comment and suggestion.
regards Ray

DavidU (Dave) · #16 06-10-2010, 11:53 AM

An interesting presentation. Fab effort.

Ric · #17 06-10-2010, 01:56 PM

Top stuff Ray

That's a great presentation, you've put a lot of time into this and its definitely paid off.

Cheers

Shiraz (Ray) · #18 06-10-2010, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidU

An interesting presentation. Fab effort.

Thanks Dave

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ric

That's a great presentation, you've put a lot of time into this and its definitely paid off.

Thanks Ric

Regards Ray

alexch (Alex) · #19 06-10-2010, 05:20 PM

Great effort and result!

I think it would make a great APOD, send it to
Robert Nemiroff at [nemiroff at mtu dot edu] or Jerry Bonnell at [bonnell at grossc dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov]

Logieberra (Logan) · #20 06-10-2010, 07:20 PM

I really like this! So many facets to this amazing hobby... on my to-do list for sure. Thx for sharing.

Logie.