The Goddess over Wroclaw

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Venus over Wroclaw, Poland
Sketch and Details by Aleksander Cieśla

Venus shining over Wroclaw city south horizon. Always beautiful.

Sketch information:
Object: Venus
Scope: Schmidt-Cassegrain 5” with Antares Speers-Waler 7,4mm
Filter: Baader Moon & SkyGlow, Meade #58 Green
Place: Poland, Wroclaw – near city center
Weather: Good. Seeing 7/10. Light Pollution.
Date: 29 December 2008.
Technique: Pencil and finger blur
Tooling: GIMP 2

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Venus at higher power over Wroclaw, Poland
Sketch and Details by Aleksander Cieśla

and second sketch of Venus in the same time

Sketch information:
Object: Venus
Scope: Schmidt-Cassegrain 5” with Antares Speers-Waler 7,4mm
Filter: Baader Moon & SkyGlow, Meade #58 Green
Place: Poland, Wroclaw – near city center
Weather: Good. Seeing 7/10. Light Pollution.
Date: 29 December 2008.
Technique: White pastel and conte’ crayons on black paper
Tooling: N/A

4 thoughts on “The Goddess over Wroclaw”

  1. Aleksander,

    I think You have seen and sketched the clouds in Venus. What is Your opinion, guys? Is it possible?
    The same time, I have watched Venus and the same strange cloud (?) formation on it.
    Nice sketch.

    Marek

  2. Hello.
    That is right Marek! I have sketched the Venus a short time after the dark. I have nice seeing and I was look at Venus more or less by one hour with moon & skyglow filter and green filter #58. Also with two combinations of this filters.
    That was double oblong darker place on the Venus half-disk.
    I am sure that was not illusion.

  3. Aleksander,

    Nice sketch of Venus and you certainly have captured the albedo features created by the clouds of the planet. I have had pretty good luck with a deep violet filter for detecting differentiation in the Venus cloud deck.
    Impressive Venus sketch you posted here.

    Frank 🙂

  4. Hi Aleksander,

    That is a nice sketch of Venus. Your terminator shading is certainly to be cloud formation. I have noted such markings a number of times over the past 2 weeks, most notably on the evening of the 3rd when I shared first light through a Victorian 6″ f15 Wray refractor from Venus using a 10mm eyepiece the terminator shading jumped out at us :)I feel guilty for not drawing now I have seen your work.

    Regards, Dale

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