The Dutch Observatory

September 12, 2009 on 6:29 pm | In Planets | Comments Off

I got up early to give Mars anoter try.  Transparency was pretty bad and the Mars images were very bad.  Than when I was ready to pack it up I saw Venus shining through a large opening in the trees.  Since I have not tried Venus, I decided to give this a try.  Venus at 13 degrees was a lot lower in the sky than Mars and the transparency and seeing were a lot worse, but there was a lot more light work with.  So here my first image of Venus under pretty bad conditions.