Venus Jan 11th

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:47:21 -0000, "Robin Leadbeater"
wrote:

Picture quality not fantastic but it was a little bit low ;-)

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/venus/Venus-jan2006.html


Well caught Pete,

I see S&T are suggesting that it might be possible to catch it actually at
the conjunction because of the larger than usual elongation this time (over
5 degrees) Are you up for it? Sue S&T, not me if you go blind!

I would have had a go but the weather isn't going to play ball.
Inferior conjunction is at 23h59mUT on the 13th I think so it would
have been tricky to have caugut it at the correct time anyway. ;-)

Still 5.5 degrees is a pretty big gap. Would be interesting to see the
crescent rotate with respect to the Sun as it passed from evening -
through conjunction - morning skies. My best to date is 2.75 degrees.

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/recent/...60604_1523.jpg

but this was done with a failsafe in place. If my drives had stopped
while attempting to grab this one, the Sun would have drifted away
from the field of view. I think James Young has the record with a
capture at 1.5 degrees (I'm working from memory now) a number of years
back. He used a shadow mask with a hole in it for his photo I seem to
recall.


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Pete
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk