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Old 13-August-2007, 08:45 PM
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Hi everyone,

Today at noon I took this image of Venus with my Takahashi CN-212 at prime focus in cassegrain mode, and ToUCam webcam with a red and variable polarizing filter to increase contrast.

http://gallery.caasastro.org/v/membe..._2007.jpg.html

Right now Venus is 57 arcseconds in apparent diameter. That is almsost an arcminute!

On Friday, Venus will only be 2 degrees closer to the Sun (it is 10 degrees from the Sun now), so hopefully, if the weather stays good, I can get an image of Venus right at inferior conjunction.
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Kyle it is beautiful thin cresent, Hope things comes out as you wish on friday, Lots of luck and clear Skies.
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Thanks JAICOA.
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Hi Kyle.

This is one great photo of Venus, you dont often see this planet looking like a very close cresent. Well done. If you dont mind I would like to keep this in my other folks photo file. Clear skies to you Paul
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Hi Kyle.

This is one great photo of Venus, you dont often see this planet looking like a very close cresent. Well done. If you dont mind I would like to keep this in my other folks photo file. Clear skies to you Paul
Thank you. I do not mind if you save my image.

Kyle
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Superb image!! I love it!!

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