Observation by Steve Knight: 12% illuminated Venus

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Steve Knight

Observer

Steve Knight

Observed

2020 May 14 - 16:52

Uploaded

2020 May 14 - 20:50

Objects

Venus

Equipment

Skywatcher 300mm f5 Newtonian
ASI74MM Camera
Televue 5x Powermate
742nm filter
Watch House EQ platform

Exposure

0.75ms, gain 321, 4000 frames stacked

Location

Banbury

Target name

Venus

Title

12% illuminated Venus

About this image

The crescent was very very apparent through finder. It's now over 48 arcsec.

Biggest challenge doing this was coping with Microsoft, laptop decided to update itself and then locked up. Grabbed a second laptop, installed Firecapture, same thing happened.

Files associated with this observation

2020-05-14-1752UT-SPK.jpg (108.7 kB)

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Bill Leatherbarrow, Chris Dole, Martin Lewis, Graham Winstanley, Nick Hewitt, David Basey, Peter Mulligan, Jeremy Shears, Paul G. Abel, Andrew Dumbleton, Andy Wilson, Michael O'Connell, Steve Knight

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