Starship Asterisk*

Venus in daylight I made this picture with my newtonian of 16cm at 48x and a fujifilm finepix s5600. Venus is very close to the sun when I made the shot at 8.38UT of this morning. The seeing was very bad. Mascalucia,Sicily,Italy Copyright: Giuseppe Pappa http://spaceweather.com/submissions/pics/g/G...

Today, during a break at work I made some pictures of a sun corona and clouds shadows. I used a digital camera fujifilm finepix s5600,(setted at F8,1/2000s exposure and 64ISO). There was a very hot day this morning,about 30°C, but the sun corona was very beautiful and clear to see with this fine clo...