Derby and District Astronomical Society



Venus in 2025

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Jim Sarsgard took this picture of Venus and Mercury on the evening of the 5th March 2025. Jim used a Canon 1000D camera with a 50 mm lens at f/2. The exposure was 1/60 second at ISO 1600. Brightness and contrast were adjusted in FastStone. Jim comments that the challenge was making Mercury visible without overexposing the rest of the photograph.  Image Credit: Jim Sarsgard.




This picture of the Moon and Venus was taken by Mike Lancaster on the 2nd March 2025 using a Google Pixel 8 Pro phone.  Image Credit: Mike Lancaster.




This picture of the Moon and Venus was taken on the 1st March 2025 by Jim Sarsgard using a Canon 1000D camera with a 50 mm lens at f/2.5. The exposure was 1/60 second at ISO 1600. The Moon was 1 day and 18 hours old. Brightness and contrast were adjusted in FastStone.  Image Credit: Jim Sarsgard.




Jim Sarsgard captured the following image of Venus on the 20th February 2025. Jim used a hand-held Google Pixel 6A phone camera at the eyepiece of a SkyWatcher 102 mm Maksutov telescope on an AZ-GTi mount.  Image Credit: Jim Sarsgard.




The following image of Venus was captured by Chris Callaway on the 3rd February 2025. Chris used an 8" Meade LX200, AVX mount, ZWO ASI178MC camera and PowerMate 2.5x extender. The best 250 frames of a 500 frame video were used for processing the image in Astrosurface, Pixinsight and Photoshop.  Image Credit: Chris Callaway.




Mike Lancaster captured this image of Saturn and Venus on the 15th January 2025 using a hand-held Google Pixel 8 Pro phone. The two planets, in Aquarius, were approaching conjunction on the 18th. The Circlet asterism in Pisces is visible towards the top of the frame.  Image Credit: Mike Lancaster.




This image of Venus was created by Chris Callaway using data collected on the 15th January 2025. Chris used a Meade 8" LX200 telescope, 2X Barlow lens and a ZWO ASI178MC camera. The video was processed in AstroSurface using the best 27 out of 1000 frames. Further processing was completed in PhotoShop.  Image Credit: Chris Callaway.




Venus reached maximum eastern elongation on the 10th January 2025, and Colin Blockwell took this image that evening using a Samsung Galaxy S22 phone.  Image Credit: Colin Blockwell.




Tony Razzell also captured Venus at maximum eastern elongation on the 10th January 2025, using an iPhone 6S.  Image Credit: Tony Razzell.




The Moon and Venus were captured by Jim Sarsgard looking down St Helen's Street, Derby on the 3rd January 2025 using a Google Pixel 6A phone.  Image Credit: Jim Sarsgard.




Cathy Razzell also captured the Moon and Venus from St Helen's Street, Derby, using an iPhone 6S.  Image Credit: Cathy Razzell.




Malcolm Neal took this image of the Moon and Venus on the 3rd January 2025. He used a hand-held Sony A7RV camera with 200-600mm lens.  Image Credit: Malcolm Neal.




This picture of the Moon and Venus was taken by Mike Lancaster on the 3rd January 2025 using a hand held Google Pixel 8 Pro phone.  Image Credit: Mike Lancaster.




This image of the 3 day old crescent Moon with Venus (at upper left), was taken on the 2nd January 2025 by Jim Sarsgard using a hand-held Google Pixel 6A phone.  Image Credit: Jim Sarsgard.



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