Planet Venus through telescope

[lanceblack888]

nice!



[flashjacksonbrowable]

Fake how can venus be that big!

[TRMDYLE666]

I have such a soft spot for Venus. It's the most beautiful planet in our solar system IMO. Although my favorite planet has to be Jupiter.

[ispywithmybigeyes11]

Looks like a rainbow

[edoardoruggeri1]

I think it's plain beautiful when you cann see the line that separes the day from the night on other planets. It really gives you the idea that that little dot in the sky is not just a disk, but actually a really big planet (really big in the sense of bigger than us, not than the earth or the other planets) that stands there and follows its course. Beautiful.

[PhazonIsAwesome]

I'm not a science genius yet, but how come the colors aren't bright. O_o

[889821885532007]

Oh yes also just because i'm curious do you still observe the nightsky with your telescope.

[889821885532007]

Oh okay thank you, that upt my knowledge of astronomy alot. one more question, i haven't braught my telescope yet but when i do it comes with the hand held control, dose that mean you put in the name of a planet and the telescope will automatically track the planet it's self... ?

[mirhaba]

@889821885532007 Maybe, what scope it is?If it has GOTO system,then yes,but you have to align the mount first, there should be manual about it...If you are beginner I strongly recomend to turn of GOTO and learn orientation on night sky, with maps or some PC planetarium (Stellarium is easy to use,great and free). You will be then able to find bright planets (now is visible Jupiter) in few seconds..And for aligning mount for GOTO use, you have to have basic skills on nightsky orientation

[889821885532007]

If venus is closer to earth then anyother planet why dosen't venus look clear through any telescope, because saturn and jupiter look really clear but every video of venus i have seen it isn't very clear.

[mirhaba]

@889821885532007 It doesn't matter if Venus is closer or not, there is almost vacuum in space. So this has no effect on clarity. The problem is Earth's atmosphere and position of an object on the sky. We can observe Venus only in evening on west or in morning on east but always not so high above horizont. So the light from planet must come through big mass of air, where is turbulence (google word seeing). Jupiter can be observe high above horizon,and the light comes through thiner mass of air..

[AmpleLight]

People have been asking me why my 1000x venus videos are green or yellow. Any ideas, im not using any filters. I always thought it was supposed to be that way until i saw the dull color profile shown in the bigger scopes. I assume its becuase im not using a neutral density filter perhaps?

[mirhaba]

@AmpleLight Hi. 1)If you see different colors of Venus in eyepiece and in camera, then you should set up white balance on camera (if that's possible).2)Venus is low on horizon and bright, so there is quite hight dispersion of light in atmosphere.3)I think that your problem is telescope and eyepice. I see on your videos color dispersion caused in your scope and eyepiece,that's ok for this low budget equipment.Solution:ED refractor(low dispersion) or reflector(no dispersion)+planetary eyepice

[Jonasdearaujo]

Have you already tried this magnification with Pluto? :)

[mirhaba]

@Jonasdearaujo no, I don't think it will work. Because of low sensitivity of my camera and low brightnes of Pluto. There is diference almost 16magnitude between Venus and Pluto! Actually I have never seen Pluto with eye in scope...

[lordoftheriffs79]

@mirhaba you will be very lucky if you manage to observe pluto... at 13th magnitude and 100 miliarcseconds it will be star like and your telescope is on the limits of resolving it... if you would like the challenge though, try it but make a number of observations days apart so you can make out pluto in motion against the other stars... :)

[nemesis3001]

Use a 14" apperture, 1200mm w/ a 4mm secondary and let us know how it goes next time! :)

[beckymccann123]

cool :)

[jamieball]

nice job... must be hard to keep it in view when we are spinning so quickly eh??

[mirhaba]

yeh..luckily I've got motorized mount, I'm not sure if I was able to keep it in view without that....

[straydoggio]

Pretty damn cool - thanks.

[Carcass1701]

You could for a bout 2 seconds then it would be gone.