Observation by Peter Tickner: Venus at 1.3% illumination

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Peter Tickner

Observer

Peter Tickner

Observed

2023 Aug 09 - 15:12

Uploaded

2023 Aug 10 - 14:09

Objects

Venus

Equipment

Player One Uranus-C
0.5 reducer
Semrock 935/170 nm band pass filter + Thorlabs FELH 1000 nm filter
14inch f/10 LX200ACF SCT
EQ8 mount

Exposure

5 ms

Location

Urban Berkshire

Target name

Venus at 1.3%

Title

Venus at 1.3% illumination

About this image

A tricky observation as I had to tape on an extension to the dew shield to protect my scope from the Sun - and it detached a couple of times before I got it to stay in place - I then accidentally turned off the mount control when I meant to turn off the camera. Despite that minor disaster I did get something! Venus wasn't that steady so this is only the best 10% of the images captured stacked and then processed.

Peter

Files associated with this observation

Venu-2023-08-09-1511_9_UT_Tickner.png (118.0 kB)

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Comments

Adam Rawlinson, 2023 Aug 10 - 14:27 UTC

Great image

Wow that was close to the sun ! You are a braver man than me!

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