The Planet Venus through my telescope, 2009-1-6

[ratchet524]

Thanks for the upload of this video. Yesterday i saw Venus too in my telescope.

[jedimastergarcia87]

My model didn't come with any software at all. Just a standard telescope.

[jedimastergarcia87]

I have a 60mm Mead telescope but I can't get anything at all. Why? What am I doing wrong? It said I think the telescope can go as far as Saturn but I can hardly get the moon. Is it cause of the lenses or am I not working the scope part right? The piece that moves in and out where the eye piece would be at. Thanks.

[jailbird111]

@jedimastergarcia87 surely you can see venus with your 78x eye peace. first step is to alight finder scope with main telescope. then point finder telescope towards the planet.thing you have to know is the location where object (star/planet/nebula) is. this you can get by stellarium software. and don't you think about size or quality of telescope i am pretty sure Galileo Galilei telescope was inferior to yours but obviously he got better payload above his sholders.

[MrSkosig]

how come it doesnt reflect light in the video? Ive watched it through my telescope and it just looks like a bright star.

[CaptainScarlet2006]

wow! very nice.

how much X power is that?

[KelliInTheRaw]

Cool!

[Airemix]

Did you put any zoom effects on this, or is this what it looks like through the eyepiece?

[cfecpaharry]

Live in Riverside, CA and I could see venus, the brightest night sky after the moon, from my living room windows in the evenings and early mornings. It's south east of my location. Simply amazing!!!

[mtanyc]

My view is the same every morning at 6am I watch this through my telescope. looks the same thanks

[SuperSims999]

My one is 200X50 telescope :D

[102Bieberfever]

wat was the date answer back piz



[balzerbarn]

@102Bieberfever 6th January 2009 I presume

[bcrowley555]

@balzerbarn hi

[jonnyasprin]

when can we observe Venus in its gibbous state or even in full view,like a full moon?

[HomeTownPublishing]

what star is it that is located directly above our head? like if you go outside tonight and tilt your head back and look straight above you, almost directly, it is always there. what star is it?

[HadronMatt]

@HomeTownPublishing - The only star which doesn't move position in the sky is Polaris or north star. All the other stars APPEAR to move around this star . Polaris however isn't directly above your head when you look straight up, its high up in the northern skies.Therefore which ever star you're referring to must be moving across the sky from east to west, you are perhaps just observing it at the same time each night, giving the appearance its always in the same place.

[guitartuner7]

stargasm

[Chunkybuddha1]

I have a starblast 6i. I have 10mm and 25mm eye pieces. Do you know what magnification I need to look at venus? I am not sure if I can already, I have only had it for two weeks.

Great video that's really great footage.

[robotmonkey73]

wow, did you have a filter on it? I can never get it to look this good it always looks like a bright star with a hint of shading

[slave880]

good job with the ping-pong ball

[OlaCola03]

very close cool :)

[Agoostaholic]

cool i got venus on my telescope earlier

[ParaglidingManiac]

Really good!

[TheFighterpilot93]

its also the brightest in the sky she rises in the west and says goodnight in the east here in the uk at the moment

[anotherising]

@TheFighterpilot93

So whats that thing above the sun visible after sundown in the west?

My location is Denmark

[TheFighterpilot93]

@anotherising i sent that comment months ago lol its proabably somewhere else now lol try and pin point it because in the uk we cant see it at the moment however we do see in the mornings very early mornings

[anotherising]

@TheFighterpilot93

W N/W 1 hour after sundown or so, if you have a compass, film the compass find west then look up there it is, anyway it was there coupple days ago and had been there for month now, above the horizon in the west, though i don't think its sedna

[anotherising]

@anotherising I meant i dont think its venus, sedna should be far out barily visible

[Replicatorz]

@anotherising Venus is closer to earth than mars is, so if we can see mars well, we should be able to see venus better!

[anotherising]

@TheFighterpilot93

Venus or not, sedna should be very distant out

[anchelicht]

Parece el logo de la bebida pepsi, pero definitivamente es Venus.

[FateMan22]

Coooool! :D

[cambike]

Just got a few quick questions, looking for a motorised telescope so I can see Jupiters moons. Could you help me choose a good quality affordable telescope.

Thanks in advance

[ScottZirpolo]

Hey, that's a good idea! Putting a webcam to a telescope, that is. Nice view of Venus, too! I wish I could do that more often...I live in a city, so I can't exactly see the sky unless the power goes out everywhere at once. This has yet to happen. :P

[Indubitabil02]

Very nice! To think that planet is the closest to Earth in size and stuff, but the conditions on the surface are closer to Hell. But then again this planet is close to Hell in its own ways, haha... actually that shouldn't be funny lol. Anyway, thanks for uploading this

[balzerbarn]

@Indubitabil02 TY, greetings

[myrdale]

@Indubitabil02 We live in a paradise.

[Chunkybuddha1]

@Indubitabil02 Actually Venus is more like Heaven, where mars is more hellish, red, burnt. Venus is full of deadly gasses but looks lovely.

[Indubitabil02]

@Chunkybuddha1

Yes, I'm sure, i would really like it if someone sent a probe there and took many pictures like the Mars rovers. Mars is interesting too, but Venus is almost the size of Earth and that makes it fascinating for us.

[Mrgyn]

@Indubitabil02

Heaven and hell are religious myths. Please keep your mind focused on science and not religious nonsense...

Thank you sir.

[orange70383]

@Mrgyn you are a fool.

[Ryanyarb24]

@Indubitabil02 there are some great Venus surface pictures taken by a Russian lander that only lasted 45 minutes on the surface.

[dmana3172]

I wished I was on that planet. I hope to travel there one day.

[XxlollyrotXx]

wow thats so cool!

[dabaymayne588]

can you just point the camera lens into the telescope eyepiece and get something like this? I have a Flip video camera and was wondering if I can do this

[nytecam]

Nice video - keep up the good work;-) In case it's not been mentioned the slight yellow/blue edge to Venus is caused by refraction as light passes through our atmosphere as is perfectly normal.

[balzerbarn]

@nytecam Thanks you're right. Unfortunately my Venus captures are often seen by newbies or born-on-the-Earth aliens who haven't got any idea about that concept, so I was tired to remark it repeatedly. In the end, thank you a lot for your comment. Greetings.

[venera13studios]

ummm.what? born-on-the-Earth aliens? what do you mean by this?

[purity26]

@nytecam Thanks for educating us to the yellow/blue edge that we see on Venus!! LOL!! It was the very first thing that I asked myself about that!

[celebrityfan1990]

yet beautiful but dangerous

[SVWillmer]

She's so lonely

[BLDBLITZ]

it looks like uranus lol i said your anus

but no joke it does look like the PLANET

[moneyshop16]

i didnt laugh sorry

[TheBoomViper]

MAN dude that's wicked! My telescope isn't sadly flexible enough for me to take a snapshot of what I'm seeing.

All I managed to do at one point was take a photo of the moon at close range. But that's all.

Anyway 5/5.

[balzerbarn]

I don't understand English so good and I cannot perceive the sense of your words. Thanks 4 your rating.

[ClinicalAttacked]

You could never get a full phased Venus cos then it would be behind the sun. People should simply understand that Venus always show phases like the moon as it's orbit is inwards to the sun in perspective to Earth, and it always looks shiny white or yellow with no features as the surface is obscured by clouds.

And it's the EASIEST and largest target to see in the sky because of it's proximity, earth-size and brightness. Hack you can actually see the Venusian phases with simple home binoculars.

[propaghandi2]

same here for the negative feedback...geez some people are really sad in life that they have to make other poeple feel like shit..(at least they try)jerks!..

man 5 on 5 for the video this is awome view of Venus..keep em coming(uploads)

once again( nice work!)

[truthfreedomnow]

Nice video.  It's great to watch planets we'll soon be able to fly past in our own craft. What's up with all the negativity in the comments? You making enemies or something? Keep up the good work. I was thinking of buying a new telescope myself as soon as I can afford one....

[ClinicalAttacked]

Actually the only galaxy that you can clearly see with a home telescope is Andromeda, some 2 million light years away, and it's the closest one to the milky way. Other galaxies are visible of course but they look like very small and faint elliptic discs, even with a powerful home telescope.

[natureboy84]

That's funny. I once filmed the moon through my telescope a few months ago and called it uranus. lmao.

[stk440]

ok ..yeah ..roflmao....venus my ass....fucking idoit attention seeker

[3DWHIZZ]

@stk440 Not Venus???......OK wiseass, what is it then.

And just who, is the attention seeker?.....twit.

It's better to remain silent and be assumed an idiot, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!

[eduardovjk]

love it.

I could stay all night looking the stars

[balzerbarn]

I've little or no chance to write this answer in the correct way I need to be a polite fellow. In the case I weren't, forgive me in advance, as my English Grammar is quite obsolete and rusty. Possibly it's "fake" our prime minister's behaviour and/or his favorite newspapers squadron and/or his best panders. Indeed, my personal "opinion" about my captures is happily shared with hundreds of fellows who surprisingly well know what means looking through a home-brewed telescope - or a NASA's one.

[ta2joe13]

what a jackass. oh well i guess ignorance is bliss lol

[Quiet0wing]

...do you even have a gd telescope....mine is 100x and I see planets just fine wit it.....

[AndreONEz]

This is weird...I see it just for a half, but what I see is orange and very very very shiny...

[Dezarus2100]

i presume dat dis video is a bit shaky bcoz your telescope has a motorized mount so dat it can follow venus as it move in d sky? But still, to capture dis on webcam is very cool. Damn i wish i could record venus wit my telescope! >(

[yanchee959]

You all can see what shape the planet is. It is a real planet, probably Venus.

What a difference between this video and the other mysterious objects on the sky, watched by many people all around the world...

[mfoytek]

Why not show the planet Venus being filmed by regular digital camera and side by side with telescope. Some dumb shit says that the planet Venus looks like a diamond shape ufo when filmed wiht a digtal camera.

[balzerbarn]

I know...

[micropawn217]

Cool!

[sedativechunk]

Your telescope shakes way too much! Good image, though!

[balzerbarn]

You know the effects of strong wind and heavy traffic.

[Chrisjr2007]

Not the telescope

Its the atmosphere!

[balzerbarn]

In other words, this capture is affected by (terrestrial) atmospheric turbulence if you refer to the wavy edge of the planet (not-excellent seeing). Other movements are consequence of wind, traffic, mechanical imperfections and so on.

[Chrisjr2007]

yup

[1234qwerty09]

what telescope did you use ?

[throwachair]

its not how big it is! its what you do with it! doh!

very nice picture, cool.

[chrlz904]

Good effort for that sort of equipment - well done!

[balzerbarn]

Thank you. My telescope isn't very large but I like how it works when seeing is better than this case...

[conewells]

Looks tiny, yet it's a planet filled with hell.

It's out there this time of year, very bright.

Near the moon. Good job.