New Image: Venus by DSLR

[Baurice]

There were some breaks in the clouds but not enough to get the telescope out. I snapped it with my DSLR at 300mm focal length ISO 100 and 1/200 second exposure, hoping to catch the phase. Fortunately, I did and it was very clearly gibbous.

[jrkirkham]

That is interesting. I've never tried with a 300mm lens before. I wonder how the crescent would show up?

[Baurice]

That is interesting. I've never tried with a 300mm lens before. I wonder how the crescent would show up?

Not as well as with 1.54 metres focal length with a Maksutov but surprisingly quite well.

You might need to zoon into the image to see the gibbous phase.