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Venus, 30 May 2020, Dzmitry Kananovich
Venus, 30 May 2020, Dzmitry Kananovich

Venus, 30 May 2020

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Venus, 5 days to inferior conjunction.

Illumination is only 0.6%, elongation from the Sun is 6.2°.

PLEASE NOTE!!! IMAGING CLOSE TO THE SUN COULD BE DANGEROUS FOR YOUR EQUIPMENT !!!

I had to make rather long "dew shield" to block the stray light coming from the nearby Sun.

Of course, seeing was bad, and the sky transparansy was low (I actually captured this image through the clouds). It took me a while to find the optimal conditions for selecting the best video frames in AS! 3 because of the low contrast. The obtained monochrome image was colored to mimic the visual colors.

Processing details: 500 of 50000 frames stacked (AS! 3), drizzle 1.5x, wavelet sharpen in Registax, background gradient removal in PixInsight. Color and noise reduction - Adobe Photoshop CC.

Image D: Stacked and sharpened monochrome image, no post-processing applied.

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