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[Chen Sir]

I captured Venus at about 11 o'clock in my local time yesterday. Given its inferior conjunction will occur this weekend, it may be the nearest position relative to Sun that I can chase for it.

 

Imaged using Huawei P40 mobile phone, C11 EdgeHD and Pentax XW14mm.

 

I failed to see Mercury and Saturn, due to too thin and too faint respectively.

 

[DLuders]

Whoa!  Were you set up in a shadow of a building, so that the Sun didn't blind you?

[Chen Sir]

Whoa!  Were you set up in a shadow of a building, so that the Sun didn't blind you?

Actually I set up in sunshine. Forgot to say that I used AZEQ6 which has GOTO function. It helped lead to the rough position of the planet and I spent some time to hunt for it.

[Special Ed]

Excellent snap!  Looks like you had decent seeing.  How long was your exposure?

[RMay]

Excellent shot. Thanks for posting… nothing but pea soup here; I’ll try again at noon - if the clouds part.

 

Forgive me for stealing your image, but I wanted to let you know that while I’m not sure if the Huawei phone has a ‘cleanup’ feature, the iPhone now has it, and it allows us to remove those pesky little odd rings that show up in our phone pictures.

 

Here’s a look at your image with the cleanup feature employed. Again, a great catch…

 

Ron

 

 

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[Chen Sir]

Excellent shot. Thanks for posting… nothing but pea soup here; I’ll try again at noon - if the clouds part.

 

Forgive me for stealing your image, but I wanted to let you know that while I’m not sure if the Huawei phone has a ‘cleanup’ feature, the iPhone now has it, and it allows us to remove those pesky little odd rings that show up in our phone pictures.

 

Here’s a look at your image with the cleanup feature employed. Again, a great catch…

 

Ron

Thank you Ron! 

My phone is an old product so it doesn't have that feature. 

I'll save this picture sharpend by you. 

[Chen Sir]

Excellent snap!  Looks like you had decent seeing.  How long was your exposure?

I don't know.  Just touched the button and got this image.  And I didn't edit at all. 

[alceo]

After a month of clouds, I was able to see Venus today. It's moving away from the sun, but it's still beautiful. Phone camera held in hand with the eyepiece. FOA60, Svony 3-8. 3:20 PM local time.

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[RMay]

Very nice images… skies finally cleared yesterday; here’s a grab from a bit after 11am local time. Point and shoot, no guiding or tracking. iPhone to my Questar 3.5 at 87.5x magnification.

 

Ron

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[triplemon]

This almost looks like the crescent is exceeding 180 degrees of arc.

Which is BTW a real thing that can happen on Venus - the sun shines through the upper layer of clouds.