Venus 5-29-12

Hi All, I kinda followed the spaceweather article and got this shot of a paper thin Venus today. It looks like a clipped toe nail on a blue sky. I made an extra long dew shield to block the sun light but that might only work for a day or two longer. As I watched Venus in the camera view finder I noticed it was moving in RA in only a few minutes. During this part of a Venus apparition I need a Venus mode on my drive corrector to speed it up. 32 frames through a 70mm refractor with a 3x barlow, taken with a Canon XTi at 100asa. Stacked in RS6 and processed in PS7.

Thanks for looking!

Joe

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Joe, excellent Venus! It's difficult to catch it at this thin phase. How did you find Venus in the daylight? Thanks for posting

Regards,
Steve

Nice work, Joe! I've been wanting to do that, but we are having storms instead.

Thanks Steve, I am off to the store to get some poster board so I can make a super long dew shield. Looks like rain till Sat so I might not need it after all. It might be too close to the sun for me at that point.

Joe