I did remember to look over my shoulder, from taking the photos of the Moon, and when Venus appeared I moved around to have a look. I wanted to try this ‘sync’ facility again, this time with Venus, but whilst I could disengage the ‘sync’ with the Moon, it didn’t offer me the option to ‘sync’ with anything else and I didn’t have time to reset and see if the option appeared in the menu afterwards, but Venus was heading for the leylandii again so I slotted in the x2 Barlow and the 25mm eyepiece. The crescent was clearly visible again, though not terribly distinct, and quite bright so I decided to load up the photo rig again and see what I could get. The answer was, not lot. The Barlow is about 4 inches long and so the camera and mount are hanging out some distance from the centre line of the ‘scope and almost diagonally opposite from the mounting point of the tube assembly. This meant that any vibration took a long while to settle down. I set the camera to a 2 second delay to see if it would settle but it didn’t. Moved it up to 10 seconds, which was the only other option available and whilst this helped, Venus was moving so quickly through the field that I would centre it, press the shutter release and then watch Venus, via the camera viewfinder, meander out of the shot! I did get one reasonable shot by setting up with Venus located top right and was still in shot after the 10 sec delay. Nothing special but the crescent is clearly visible. The darker image has been through Photoshop but only to remove the background glow, otherwise the contrast hasn’t been touched.

From 6th March Venus Moon
From 6th March Venus Moon
From 6th March Venus Moon
From 6th March Venus Moon

Nothing here is going to win any prizes but you have to start somewhere and I was pleasantly surprised by how the little Canon performed but on the downside, all these were taken in fairly bright twilight and I wonder how I will get on in full darkness?