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  1. Nice! Moon plays hide & seek with clouds! MT @rb357: Time-lapse vid of Moon+clouds, last night at sunset. Sped up 60x youtube.com/watch?v=DGampQ…
  2. Gorgeous! Cool Copernicus! MT @Astronomy_Dude: Close up on #Moon, love this crater when it’s right on the terminator twitter.com/Astronomy_Dude…
  3. Beautiful! RT @Spicey_Spiney: Waxing gibbous afocal #luna 29/05/12 #CanonPowershotA2100 #Moonwatch twitpic.com/9r0qtw
  4. Superb! RT @Avertedvision: Daily Venus: Troublesome skies, 30 May #bbcstargazing #bbcskyatnight #transitofvenus twitpic.com/9r15ha
  5. Awesome Venusian imaging from Argentina! :) RT @lrargerich: Daytime Venus on May 30th 2012. Difficult catch. twitpic.com/9r1nrt
  6. Oh this is superb!!! MT @mickhyde: The Moon tonight #bbcskyatnight #bbcstargazing #moonwatch bit.ly/N89cuX
  7. Superb image! RT @james_lennie: 29-05-12 Tonight's Moon with 10" Reflector and Canon 500D Single shot. Mosaic later flic.kr/p/c7SRSE
  8. @dumbasslst I would say many variables, weather being the biggest. It's at dawn so I'd do some dummy runs at dawn between now and 6th.
  9. MT @dumbassist Hi @newburyastro A RT pls?! I'm trying my 1st timelapse with the #TransitofVenus - canon eos550d. any suggested settings?
  10. @dumbasslst Hi, happy to! Can't do a direct RT as your tweets are protected. I'll copy and paste.
  11. @james_lennie @wdillon True, still it's astonishing quality using phones sensor and imaging optics. Remember images from first camera phone.
  12. @angegarrod #slurp twitpic.com/9qq228
  13. That is superb! RT @menneskedyr: That's no moon... That's Venus! Single DSLR shot at 500mm, an hour ago. flic.kr/p/c7NAVA
  14. Taken with a PHONE! Superb! MT @wdillon: Sunrise on Plato: #moonwatch #bbcstargazing #astronomy #iphoneastronomy twitpic.com/9qpzdk
  15. Nicely positioned! Know how difficult this is! RT @angegarrod: Daytime moon and oak 29/5/12 #moonwatch #wonders - moby.to/4zszzc