Dusk, From East Side of Prestwick avenue looking West, Orleans
Using binoculars and a hand-held short tube 80mm Janice and I managed
to observe Venus at 6:45pm. Very nice in that it definitely shows up
as a very small thin crescent, even in the 7 X 50 binoculars. The
short tube showed it only slighly larger at 12x. You were easily able
to have the horizon and the planet in the same field of view.
The Moon was a very slight and beautiful crescent tonight, set in a
backfrop of the sunset's gold and red colours. Quite attractive. If
any of you get to observe it at higher powers, maybe let us know.
Even at 12x in the short tube 80mm it was looking fine.
Catching the Photons
Rol
