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Title: Venus on the Shortest Day
Post by: MarkS on Dec 23, 2011, 07:47:29

Venus looked quite spectacular in the evening sky yesterday, the shortest day of 2011:

(http://www.markshelley.co.uk/webdisk/venus22122011.jpg)
Nikon D70 52mm f/4.5 1.3sec ISO 200

Mark

Title: Re: Venus on the Shortest Day
Post by: Fay on Dec 23, 2011, 09:38:07

a lovely simple picture, Mark, very nice

Title: Re: Venus on the Shortest Day
Post by: mickw on Dec 23, 2011, 10:02:02

And it's got a tree :o

Nice one Mark - another cloud free night at High Halden

Title: Re: Venus on the Shortest Day
Post by: The Thing on Dec 24, 2011, 13:37:05

[Brian Sewel Voice ON]There's a prominent hot pixel right in the middle towards the top that is rather spoiling the astronomical tree aspect of the composition.[Brian Sewel Voice OFF] ;)

Title: Re: Venus on the Shortest Day
Post by: mickw on Dec 24, 2011, 15:53:12

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: MarkS on Dec 23, 2011, 07:47:29