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Lunnar occultation of Venus - approach phase
I hope other's had some luck with this. Quite a bit of cloud about
today... http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta...s_and_Moon.jpg -- Pete http://www.digitalsky.org.uk |
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Lunnar occultation of Venus - approach phase
In article , Pete Lawrence wrote:
I hope other's had some luck with this. Quite a bit of cloud about today... http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta...s_and_Moon.jpg That's a rather atmospheric image Pete, no pun intended. Jim -- Find me at http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk "Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquabae, we'll face the devil!" - Robert Burns, "Tam O'Shanter" |
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Lunnar occultation of Venus - approach phase
Pete Lawrence wrote:
I hope other's had some luck with this. Quite a bit of cloud about today... http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta...s_and_Moon.jpg Hi Pete, Perfect weather (so far) here in the southeastern Mediterranean. Anxiously waiting for the second half (reappearance). I was impressed how bright Venus appeared .. and especially in relation to the moon. Back within the hour with lots of material. Good luck with the second half of the occultation. Anthony. |
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Lunnar occultation of Venus - approach phase
"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message ... I hope other's had some luck with this. Quite a bit of cloud about today... http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta...s_and_Moon.jpg -- Pete http://www.digitalsky.org.uk Hey, at least you got to see it. No such luck for us North Americans. Nice picture, too. |
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Lunnar occultation of Venus - approach phase
Lovely image, Pete!
Thanks for the post Ben |
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Lunnar occultation of Venus - approach phase
How many "n"s in Lunar - must have been the excitement!!
Here are a couple of additional shots... http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta..._14h02m10s.jpg http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta...appearance.jpg http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta...appearance.jpg http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta..._15h22m12s.jpg -- Pete http://www.digitalsky.org.uk |
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Lunnar occultation of Venus - approach phase
That's certainly further proof as to how extremely bright the planet
Venus actually is compared to the illuminated surface of our physically dark, somewhat salty and otherwise downright nasty moon. http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta...s_and_Moon.jpg http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta...appearance.jpg http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta..._15h22m12s.jpg Especially if having been utilizing an unfiltered camera/lens and if being situated upon the naked moon would have to make Venus all that much more so vibrant than depicted by these nifty images obtained by Pete Lawrence "Lunnar occultation of Venus - approach phase". http://groups.google.com/group/uk.sc...886c0b640dfbc0 Too bad the best our hocus-pocus NASA/Apollo wizards could manage is having included a few rather dull images of Earth along with Apollo stuff illuminated as though by way of a Xenon lamp spectrum, without their having any hint of raw solar UV or of the secondary/recoil worth of having anything near-blue as skewed about their Kodak moments at that. In other honest to God words, we didn't actually walk on that moon of ours, did we. It's not possible to have walked on our physically dark and nasty moon without their having gotten a few FOVs worth of having included Venus. - "whoever controls the past, controls the future" / George Orwell - Brad Guth |
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