Observation by Peter Tickner: Venus night side 22nd February

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Peter Tickner

Observer

Peter Tickner

Observed

2025 Feb 22 - 19:45

Uploaded

2025 Feb 25 - 02:14

Objects

Venus

Equipment

QHY5111585M
Thorlabs FELH 1000 nm long pass
Pixelteq 1010/38 nm band pass filter
0.5 reducer
Celestron f/10 C11
EQ8 mount

Exposure

50 ms videos at 100 gain

Location

Urban Berkshire

Target name

Venus night side

Title

Venus night side 22nd February

About this image

Our best effort so far for this apparition with Venus 20.3% illuminated in largely clear skies and Venus very bright. Biggest problem was having to wait until Venus was already down to 14 degrees altitude to dodge a local pine tree's branches. We were able to capture usable data right down to 9 degrees. This image is a compilation of all the good data. Beta Regio is the dark spot near the top, the other darker region nearer the middle is Phoebe Regio.

Peter

Files associated with this observation

Venus final stack - eight files.png (182.4 kB)

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