Venus

[maryccc]

I took this pic of Venus last nite

[NEOWatcher]

I took this pic of Venus last nite

Nice picture, but could you please crop it next time? It took me a while to scroll around to actually find Venus.

[Whirlpool]

uhh.. I cant see Venus..

[Bokmakierie]

Nice picture, but could you please crop it next time? It took me a while to scroll around to actually find Venus.

I agree. Better to crop such images.
I am most interested in the equipment you used to obtain this image. Prime focus or afocal? Did you record AVI's first and then stack the images with Registax?

Phil

[hhEb09'1]

Shouldn't Venus have shown some phase last night? A bit of a slice off of it?

[maryccc]

I agree. Better to crop such images.
I am most interested in the equipment you used to obtain this image. Prime focus or afocal? Did you record AVI's first and then stack the images with Registax?

Phil

Sorry about the big image.
I used my sony cybershot H2 with an attached teleconverter lens and used a tripod. I believe I used the twilight setting. This wasn't an avi. I haven't quite figured out how to use registax yet but would love some pointers. I didn't use a telescope for these shots.

[maryccc]

Shouldn't Venus have shown some phase last night? A bit of a slice off of it?

I thought so too but maybe since I wasn't using a telescope maybe it didn't show up.

[hhEb09'1]

I didn't use a telescope for these shots.

Venus was only 12 arcseconds wide last night. Without a telescope, you're not going to get much of an image.

PS:

I thought so too but maybe since I wasn't using a telescope maybe it didn't show up.

Yes, that image may just be the out-of-focus dot of light.

[Bokmakierie]

Sorry about the big image.
I used my sony cybershot H2 with an attached teleconverter lens and used a tripod. I believe I used the twilight setting. This wasn't an avi. I haven't quite figured out how to use registax yet but would love some pointers. I didn't use a telescope for these shots.

This is a Stellarium representation of what Venus should have looked like last night. I have a feeling that you have enlarged your original image far too much. Can you post the original raw image exactly as you obtained it from the camera? Maybe you did carch the gibbous shape in the original.

Phil

[NEOWatcher]

Sorry about the big image.

Thanks for shrinking it, but now it's not detailed. I was hoping for a crop instead of a shrink. Especially, after reading some of the responses on Venus' phases and such.

[Amber Robot]

It looks way out of focus to me.

[maryccc]

http://www.coynepics.com/photography...y/DSC03088.JPG

Here is the original


http://www.coynepics.com/photography...088cropped.JPG

[01101001]

http://www.coynepics.com/photography...y/DSC03088.JPG

Here is the original

I know someone asked for it, but over 2 megabytes, a roughly 3000x2000 image of a small blob of light in a huge dark sky really isn't much worth viewing. I feel sorry for anyone on limited and/or costly bandwidth who endured it. I'd recommend that in the future you present those big images to us via a link, like this: Original Large Venus Image

Most people try to keep in-line images in discussions to some-thousand bytes not millions, with dimensions in the hundreds, not thousands, of pixels, a sub-hundred pixel thumbnail even better.

Anyway, to me, too, it looks way out of focus. Any detail you see on that Venus looks to be dust on a lens that is coming into focus.

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Nice moon shot in that other thread (I won). That's about as large as you should go in-line, and probably just for good stuff like that.

[pghnative]

This is a Stellarium representation of what Venus should have looked like last night. I have a feeling that you have enlarged your original image far too much. Can you post the original raw image exactly as you obtained it from the camera? Maybe you did carch the gibbous shape in the original.

Phil

[nitpick]Keeping in mind that since marycc is in the Northern Hemisphere (I think) and did not use a telescope, then the view would be the reverse of your simulation. [/nitpick]

[Whirlpool]

Thanks Mary .

I see it now.

[maryccc]

sowwwy

[01101001]

sowwwy

That's all right. We all had a learning phase.

Here's a cookie, if you are a Mary: probably my prettiest ambigram (words readable more than one way -- like also upside-down) ever:



Edit: Come to think of it, you maybe could go back and edit those article with really big in-line pictures to use links instead.
Edit: Looks like you did. Thanks.

[JAICOA]

Overall a good try, and take those pointers as a tool to grow on future Astro Photos. Clear Skies

[maryccc]

sorry I have only been doing this for a few months.

[maryccc]

Thank you

How do I use this in my signature?

That's all right. We all had a learning phase.

Here's a cookie, if you are a Mary: probably my prettiest ambigram (words readable more than one way -- like also upside-down) ever:



Edit: Come to think of it, you maybe could go back and edit those article with really big in-line pictures to use links instead.

[01101001]

How do I use this in my signature?

I don't know. I do not think images work in automatic signatures. You wouldn't want to replace the nice award-winning moon image in your avatar with it. It would probably be unwelcome to explicitly include it in-line in every article. Maybe you can't figure out a way to use it here. Save it and use it somewhere else. Make your SO wear it as a tattoo. Embroider it on a sweater. (The large size is http://www.01101001.com/images/mary.gif . If you ever need a smaller one, start with the large one and shrink it down.)

[maryccc]

Thanks I think I see it now