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Yikes, Z. :eeek:
This is more my style, captured by a buddy at Beaver Meadow Observatory last weekend. I was using our club's 14" telescope to image Venus in the daylight. Don't tell anyone, but a used an age filter to adjust some artifacts in the chin area caused by the unfavorable camera angle.
Wearing my depression era Art-Style cap.
I was shooting Venus using a narrowband ultraviolet filter. It's a pain to use... most of the available UV light is absorbed by the optics of the telescope and the camera isn't too sensitive at these wavelengths. But this is the only way to see the delicate cloud structures in the atmosphere of Venus. The picture came out OK. But after years of using this 8nm bandpass filter more suited for solar imaging, I thought it might be helpful to buy a new one with a wider spectral pass. It came on Thursday - yet another in our string of fantastic warm, clear, summery spring days. I came home early and found Venus in the eyepiece of my scope about two hours before sunset. Here is the final image, captured with a 11500mm telephoto lens (aka my 10" telescope).
Have you been enjoying the close conjunction of Venus and Jupiter these last several weeks? It will get especially beautiful over the next few days as the thin crescent moon joins in the party. If it's clear in the early evening, be sure to enjoy the view!
This is more my style, captured by a buddy at Beaver Meadow Observatory last weekend. I was using our club's 14" telescope to image Venus in the daylight. Don't tell anyone, but a used an age filter to adjust some artifacts in the chin area caused by the unfavorable camera angle.
Wearing my depression era Art-Style cap.
I was shooting Venus using a narrowband ultraviolet filter. It's a pain to use... most of the available UV light is absorbed by the optics of the telescope and the camera isn't too sensitive at these wavelengths. But this is the only way to see the delicate cloud structures in the atmosphere of Venus. The picture came out OK. But after years of using this 8nm bandpass filter more suited for solar imaging, I thought it might be helpful to buy a new one with a wider spectral pass. It came on Thursday - yet another in our string of fantastic warm, clear, summery spring days. I came home early and found Venus in the eyepiece of my scope about two hours before sunset. Here is the final image, captured with a 11500mm telephoto lens (aka my 10" telescope).
Have you been enjoying the close conjunction of Venus and Jupiter these last several weeks? It will get especially beautiful over the next few days as the thin crescent moon joins in the party. If it's clear in the early evening, be sure to enjoy the view!
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