Daytime astronomy: imaging Mercury and Venus
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Daytime astronomy: Observing and imaging the planets Mercury and Venus in daylight. This video presents a observing episode (a video observing report if you will) with a Meade RCX400 14" telescope, detailing target location and acquisition, initial video imaging with DFK camera and final processing to still images with Registax. Presented by Robert J Dalby FRAS Produced by The Astronomy and Nature Centre
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@Kosta hanania.You would have to do it manually.
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This one brought back a few memories of stacking images with a 14" LX200, though I've never done this for a daylight object. I assume you should cover the scope when slewing, in case the computer takes you over the sun to get to the objective. Great demo!
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Where do you live, sir? by the way, incredible set up! I wish I had it on my backyard
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Thank you for the help, this has helped me a lot to understand how to view planets and other space objects in the morning sky. I will try to set up the telescope today and view in the morning. Also keeping the word of, 'stay away from the sun!'
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Yes your scope has a similar goto system to the Meade RCX we used. Like the RCX you won't be able to sync on the sun so just do a two star blind alignment as seen in the vid. And don't forget to make sure the telescope and finder are correctly focused (from night before) as finding planets with an incorrectly focused instrument can be next to impossible. When hunting for any any planet near the sun you must take care not to accidentally view the sun even with the finder scope. Regards A&NC TV
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Just a quick question, i have the Meade Starnavigator 102 telescope, is it possible to find planets in the daytime with it. Thank you
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Just a quick question, i have the Meade Starnavigator 102 telescope, is it possible to find planets in the daytime with it. Thank you
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Try Venus in the early dusk. I recently managed to photograph both Venus and Sun in the same picture, the reddish Sun was about 3-4 degrees above the northwestern horizon a few minutes before it sets.
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Hey there.I see alot of dust hovering around in your observatory.Isn't that a problem for you?Because life has showed me that every pice of dust on a DSLR camera lens can cause dark spots on long exposure images against bright objects.Also how much does that whole thing cost?
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Great job! Thanks a lot for this!
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well done! i saw Venus once, in broad daylight, but never got to image it like that. actually, i never imaged anything else but the sun, during daytime. quite a challenge there, especially if you don't have a dome - i almost always come back all sweat after a "sun-bath" :))
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@AstronomyAndNatureTV, No problems with observing venus with Mercury (sunrise sunset). What I wanted to know is how to look for Venus in broad daylight.
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@ParaglidingManiac Hi - think about this way: both planets are within the orbit of the Earth - that's to say they are closer to the Sun than we are. So, wherever the Sun appears to be both planets are going to spend a fair bit of time a little to the East or West of the Sun. So a good strategy to pick up Venus would be to look for a very bright 'star' low in the West after sunset or in the East after sunrise. Same for Mercury but it's a lot dimmer and closer to the Sun so harder to see. A&NC
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I would like it so much, if anybody would jsut show me how to find Venus or/and Mercury without a computerized telescope!
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That is a sweet RCX 14" I have a LX200 10" Classic,and I bow to you for having a superior telescope(I need a larger size scope!)
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