Venus, Tuesday 8pm

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #1 21-12-2005, 12:12 AM

Grabbed a few thousand frames of Venus through the heat shimmer just after sunset.

10" f/6 newtonian @ f/48 via 5x powermate + extension
Lumenera LU075M camera
2000 frames stacked out of 6000
Exposure 2ms, 30fps
Red Astronomik filter

Image has not been resized - this is the "real" size!

regards, Bird

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #2 21-12-2005, 12:19 AM

That is superb Bird!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

That is probably the finest Venus pic I have ever seen!

Well done Anthony. I am Gob-smacked!

videoguy · #3 21-12-2005, 03:37 AM

Very nice mate! Great image scale.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #4 21-12-2005, 03:45 AM

Pity it's covered in cloud... would be an awesome sight if it had a visible surface ...

Bird

videoguy · #5 21-12-2005, 03:59 AM

Know what you mean Bird.. I've often wondered how cool it would be to get a view of the nearest terrestrial world without the white cloak. Wow 50 arcseconds of detail! It would also be great if we had a full rotation view of the Moon for that matter!

videoguy · #6 21-12-2005, 04:01 AM

Well actually it'd be mostly in the dark then lol :-)

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #7 21-12-2005, 05:43 AM

Chasing the terminator is always fun.

iceman (Mike) · #8 21-12-2005, 06:09 AM

Very very nice Anthony, it's huge! Like Ken, probably one of the finest Venus pics i've ever seen.

davidpretorius · #9 21-12-2005, 08:37 AM

you knocked off asimov's as the best i have seen. Both of yours are lovely and sharp.

through heat shimmer you say,

i have to shoot this over my own roof, so i will give it a go as well if lots of frames clean it up

ving (David) · #10 21-12-2005, 10:06 AM

gotta love venus hey

nice one.

asimov (John) · #11 21-12-2005, 10:47 AM

Lovely Anthony! Well done mate.

Dennis · #12 21-12-2005, 11:59 AM

Stunning image Anthony - great job!

Cheers

Dennis