Venus through Binoculars

This is Venus as seen on 15th March 2009 through the big Vixen 12x80 binoculars.

If you see directly through the binoculars Venus appears much smaller, but using a camera zoom, we obtain a video like this one.

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Science & Technology

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• Venus
• phase
• Astronomy
• Astrophotography
• March
• 2009
• Vixen
• 12x80
• binoculars

[alex98131]

liers its the moon sideways

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

@alex98131 Guess you are kidding me ...

[Airemix]

What camera did you use to capture this? I've got a pair of binos that I've been using for some stargazing lately, but I don't have any way of taking pictures or videos through them.

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

@Airemix I used a point-and-shoot digicam. It's a bit difficult to hold the camera pointing through the eyepiece, but with patience it can be done.

[cometchaser832]

@alex98131 that's the venus

[alex98131]

@CumputerPhysiscsLab you cant see venus through binoculars

[tekkenforever82]

@CumputerPhysiscsLab and can you tell me what telescope is good to watch and not too expensive??

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

@tekkenforever82 None. For viewing planets the best equipment is a telescope. Binoculars have not enough magnification for viewing details on planets.

[tekkenforever82]

@CumputerPhysiscsLab do you know what is the best binoculars for watching planets??

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

@tekkenforever82 You may see planets as stars, that is nothing more than dots of light. A magnification of 20x is not enough to view details in planets, except on Venus, in which case you can observe the phase quite clearly.

I am not sure, but maybe you could even see Saturn rings with 20x, but it is not going to be easy to do so.