Observation by Chris Dole: Venus moving towards superior conjunctio...

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Chris Dole

Observer

Chris Dole

Observed

2019 May 25 - 08:30

Uploaded

2019 May 26 - 00:02

Objects

Venus

Equipment

180mm Mak Cass @f20.
ASI290mm camera.
ZWO 850nm IR pass filter.
EQ6 mount.

Location

Newbury. G.B.

Target name

Venus.

Title

Venus moving towards superior conjunction.

About this image

The planet is now fairly close to the Sun at about 20° elongation and is a little over 10 arc seconds in diameter, which combine to make this quite challenging.

I was lucky on this occasion though as the Sun was behind some slow moving cloud which prevented the telescope tube from becoming heated. That of course can have a very detrimental effect on the seeing which is generally poor when observing near the Sun anyway.

Superior conjunction occurs on August 14th.

Files associated with this observation

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