Observation by Martin Lewis: Venus nightside 15th Sept

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Martin Lewis

Observer

Martin Lewis

Observed

2023 Sep 15 - 04:48

Uploaded

2023 Sep 16 - 09:55

Objects

Venus

Equipment

444mm Dobsonian
Player One Uranus C
Pixelteq 1010nm filter with 38nm fwhm plus ZWO 850nm

Location

St Albans, UK

Target name

Venus

Title

Venus nightside 15th Sept

About this image

Really excellent conditions on 15th Sept for a 50minute imaging session. Steady seeing,excellent transparency and Venus high in a dark sky, yielding my best ever nightside image, with a wealth of fine detail.

This from 90% of the best 4x2minute captures of the session - stacking more just reduced the detail slightly.

Martin

Files associated with this observation

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Comments

Chris Hooker, 2023 Sep 17 - 17:22 UTC

That's a superb image, Martin. Your experience of these observations and the large aperture really makes a big difference to the results. Very well done!

Chris

Martin Lewis, 2023 Sep 17 - 22:45 UTC

Thanks Chris,
The 15th was a session when everything came together to give a result that I am truly happy with. The planning, equipment decisions, settings decisions, scope tweaks, and previous experience paid off and nature for once gifted me good transparency, cloudless skies and excellent seeing.

It has been discussions and sharing of ideas and enthusiasm with guys like yourself, Peter Tickner, and Anthony Wesley that have inspired me to keep at this project, and I really appreciate that.

Regards
Martin

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