Venus occultation May 21st part 1

Ok - I'll admit that this was lucky ;-)

Skies cleared about 2 minutes before this happened. Had to non-GOTO
locate Venus and guess the exposure. Can just see the Moon's
crescent.

http://www.pbl33.fast24.co.uk/occultation_001.jpg

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Nicely captured m8y

Tony


"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
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Ok - I'll admit that this was lucky ;-)

Skies cleared about 2 minutes before this happened. Had to non-GOTO
locate Venus and guess the exposure. Can just see the Moon's
crescent.

http://www.pbl33.fast24.co.uk/occultation_001.jpg

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Pete Lawrence
http://www.pbl33.co.uk
Most recent images http://www.pbl33.fast24.co.uk/recent_images.html

Pete Lawrence wrote:

Ok - I'll admit that this was lucky ;-)

Skies cleared about 2 minutes before this happened. Had to non-GOTO
locate Venus and guess the exposure. Can just see the Moon's
crescent.

http://www.pbl33.fast24.co.uk/occultation_001.jpg

I'd have bet money that couldn't be done.

Without printing out the pic and measuring, it does look as though
Venus is in front of the Moon

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Pete Lawrence nous a écrit :

Ok - I'll admit that this was lucky ;-)

Skies cleared about 2 minutes before this happened. Had to non-GOTO
locate Venus and guess the exposure. Can just see the Moon's
crescent.

I don't know if you're lucky, but this is an interesting picture.
Well done

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images of the sky http://images.ciel.free.fr
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On Fri, 21 May 2004 14:29:47 +0200, "Norbert"
wrote:

Pete Lawrence nous a écrit :

Ok - I'll admit that this was lucky ;-)

Skies cleared about 2 minutes before this happened. Had to non-GOTO
locate Venus and guess the exposure. Can just see the Moon's
crescent.

I don't know if you're lucky, but this is an interesting picture.
Well done

Thanks Norbert.

I have just checked my camera's clock by photographing the display of
an atomic clock server. Image EXIF time appears to be 33s ahead of
the actual time. The image was taken with an EXIF recorded time of
12h06m33s (BST) so the time recorded on the image (which doesn't show
seconds at the moment) is accurate - 11h06m00s UT.

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Earlier this morning I tried to find Venus on my program (Guide) but it only
came up with the Moon. After a few minutes checking, I realised we had an
occultation. I ran time forwards on the program to identify emergence - in
about an hour or less.

Strange that I have not seen this listed in advance. I could have watched the
start earlier on - but now it is cloudy. Glad to see you got it.

Lawrence Harris




On Fri, 21 May 2004 12:36:22 +0100, Pete Lawrence
wrote:

Ok - I'll admit that this was lucky ;-)

Skies cleared about 2 minutes before this happened. Had to non-GOTO
locate Venus and guess the exposure. Can just see the Moon's
crescent.

http://www.pbl33.fast24.co.uk/occultation_001.jpg

Fantastic!

I have to believe it is luck for my own sanity :-)

Trouble is that makes Pete one of the luckiest guys alive as he is
always pulling off shots like this. Hmm. Maybe he's not too bad at this
after all ...

(I was going to say that I thought that "venus" in the second shot was
just an internal reflection from the crack in his objective, but that
would be a mean thing to say about such a great shot !)

Well done Pete, maybe one day I'll get a shot like that ...

Andrew

Norbert wrote:
Pete Lawrence nous a écrit :


Ok - I'll admit that this was lucky ;-)

Skies cleared about 2 minutes before this happened. Had to non-GOTO
locate Venus and guess the exposure. Can just see the Moon's
crescent.


I don't know if you're lucky, but this is an interesting picture.
Well done

--
Norbert. (no X for the answer)
======================================
knowing the universe - stellar and galaxies evolution
http://nrumiano.free.fr
images of the sky http://images.ciel.free.fr
======================================

"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
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Ok - I'll admit that this was lucky ;-)

Skies cleared about 2 minutes before this happened. Had to non-GOTO
locate Venus and guess the exposure. Can just see the Moon's
crescent.

http://www.pbl33.fast24.co.uk/occultation_001.jpg

--

Don't be so modest Pete, you can give lady luck a big helping hand by good
planning and technique you did it :-) It was only when I saw your image
and checked AN to see it listed there that I realised it was on, and then
proceeded to kick myself!

Congratulations!

Robin

JRS: In article m,
seen in news:uk.sci.astronomy, Lawrence lawrence@astronomer.? posted
at Fri, 21 May 2004 12:36:20 :
Earlier this morning I tried to find Venus on my program (Guide) but it only
came up with the Moon. After a few minutes checking, I realised we had an
occultation. I ran time forwards on the program to identify emergence - in
about an hour or less.

Strange that I have not seen this listed in advance.

Well, it was listed in advance :
URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/astro.htm#CE
URL:http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/#0405
The second is well-known though has much more detail than interests me;
unless an event is visible, artificial, important, or local, I don't
much care.

But (AISB?) ISTM that a calendar of events of interest could be posted
here on a regular basis, and edited in accordance with collective
wisdom.

I have events pending for 2004-06-08, 2004-10-14, 2004-10-28,
2006-03-29, 2012-06-06/7, 2117-12-11.

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