We saw that bright planet in the west (Venus), now come see live video of Saturn! 5-15-12 *Thanks for watching, replay on page 2*

Can someone tell me if the link is still live? My music player crashed, but hopefully the video is still good.

Says can't find video stream here...

Why Venus is so bright these days if it is not a full Venus?

is it the video with the bright cloud type object

Very nice video, thanks for that.

I'm just seeing a green texted control screen right now.

How long does Venus stay in the western sky this thing seems to be up there for months now???

have to select the video from streams below that screen i think ???

Back online now. Will now show the effect of seeing Venus out of focus and zoomed in with a camcorder; it doesn't show Venus' true shape, then we'll take a look at "overovexposed venus" which is not a "plasma light ship."

I'm seeing the very same thing through my Meade ETX over the last week. Its crazy to be so bright and yet crescent through the scope.

Odd to say the least...

Clear night, great shot.

Thats my question too.

ROFL....

Is this the closest you can get? Don't get me wrong, it'S pretty f'in awesome and thanks again.
So tired of all the racket n finally someone points an f'in scope at it and it's settled. Unless, of course, you're Kubrick reincarnated to do another masterpiece like the moon landing! O_o


L8R

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As you can see, Venus is about to set over the roofline, but the large shape you see when trying to zoom in on it with a camcorder is just an effect of being out of focus; that shape doesn't tell you anything about Venus' true appearance which you can see here setting and fading as it sets.

Nice work Astro...5* from me!!!

now had a long yellow band in it.

That's because you have been witness to the procession of Venus as it orbits the Sun. You see, for months it's been catching up to Earth as both planets move in the same direction around the Sun. Venus is closer and moves faster so it's actually catching up to us.

Soon, I believe next month, Venus will be nearly even with us in our orbits and Venus will be transiting the surface of the Sun as it moves between us and the Sun.

It's actually been quite the beautiful celestial spectacle featuring two Venus, Jupiter, and Moon conjunctions as well as a very bright Venus that is very close to us at this point in our orbits. And there's plenty more action to come as Venus approaches solar transit.

Venus has now set, we'll move on to some other targets for a bit.

You missed it, that was the roof line as it set.

Could get twice as close, but Venus isn't as high as it was earlier in the year, thus the atmospheric turbulence you have to look through to see it is pretty bad and you wouldn't see any additional detail than in the close up view I showed which revealed its crescent shape.

I'll post the formula for Venus' brightness later. It's a dual function of distance and phase; distance rules the day for the most part, thus it is brightest when it is a crescent phase and close to us. Danjon determined a formula for calculating it based on phase and distance about 60 years ago using 335 observations made of it over 10 years time. It works very well.

I like the music you chose to add.

Very nice.

This bright star is Regulus, by the way. I'm aligning the telescope properly, I had only done a rough eyeball alignment before we started this evening.

Thrilling

Very cool. Thanks

OH MY GOD!......ITS PLANET X!!!

























































Just kidding!!! But thanks for the link!

Well, Astromut, I can't say that you completely debunked the existence of Nibiru, but you have certainly convinced me that it WAS, indeed, Venus.

So, without further ado.

I apologize. You were right. I was wrong.

It is Venus. It is NOT Nibiru.

That doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but you have put my mind at ease knowing that Venus just appears a bit differently than before.

Thanks a lot for clearing that up and for the great thread/stream.

5*!



EDIT*

I also apologize for calling you a shill, it was a mistake, one I will not make again.

Last Edited by ****D4RK*ST4R**** on 05/15/2012 09:47 PM

Now before anyone says anything, no, Saturn is not actually tipped over on its side. For one thing, the main telescope camera is twisted to one side in order to make way for the mallincam on the refractor above it, for another thing, I'm currently Alt-Az aligned, not polar aligned, so field rotation is a factor.

Last Edited by Astromut on 05/15/2012 09:53 PM

Apology accepted, thank you, I'm pleasantly surprised.