Venus bit rubbish photo.

[oldgit]

Photo of Venus taken at 6.30 this morning. Click here<A target="_blank" HREF=http://arweb.co.uk/aralbums/Boaters2/sunvenus.thumb.jpg>Venus</A>

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[Dave_Snelson]

Actually Fred, that photo isn't rubbish, its pin-sharp and very good (I'm an amatuer astronomer as well by the way). Did you take this? If so you need to remove it from here before it gets nicked, and see if anyone wants to buy it!

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[hlb]

Ha Ha. It's a white snooker balll.../forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[tcm]

Hm. The level of detail is incredible i must say. It seems that Venus is round, probably spherical, and very small in comparison with the size of the sun.

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[Dave_Snelson]

Indeed!! If the sun were scaled to a ball of 1 meter diam. then Venus would be 8.6mm diam. and approx 77.6 meters distant.

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[boatone]

Heres another one at 1015bst.
Had a devil of a job finding enough ND filters to get light level into safety zone....not quite sharp...need tripod really with effective 480mm telephoto on digi cam! Might try again later.....

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[Johnnygil]

no not a snooker ball , its the spot billiard white lol

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[hlb]

Well thats exactly wot I thought, but thought it might be being a bit to padantic.../forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[whisper]

Not bad at all but it's a pity you didn't clean the lens - there's an annoying speck at about 5 o'clock. My doesn't Venus look big and bright/forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[BrendanS]

Excellent piccie actually. See the program on BBC2 tonite?

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[hlb]

It was only last night on telly, that I realised that Venus was just the speck and the big lump was the sun. All that fuss about a little speck.../forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[oldgit]

an even bigger one

Try this for size sailor /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.secstop.co.uk/sunvenus.jpg>Bigone</A> and one more piccy to follow soon of more boaty interest.

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