Guest Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Taken with a 127 mm Mak and SPC 880. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Nice one Phil - can just make out the near gibbous phase. Smashing capture considering the gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Thanks. I'm quite surprised you haven't seen many amateur images of Venus. Well here's another 72, although not all of them are top notch: http://s197.photobucket.com/user/PhillipPugh/library/Venus?sort=3&page=1 At this stage of its orbit, I don't expect to see anything other than the phase, which seems to have changed little since my photo last month. Webcamming seems the best option at the moment but most of my older shots were taken using afocal projection. I've captured some albedo features in the clouds but only when Venus was a thin crescent and near to us. I'm hoping that the Mak/SPC880 combination will yield some nice results later in the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Can't say you didn't have a good go at it then lol. Good variety of phases and colour there - it's not the easiest subject and not always a lot of time to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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