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Venus, Tom Gray

Venus

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I was hoping it would remain clear so I could have another go at C/2019 Y4 and Y1 ATLAS, but the cloud rolled in. On the plus side I'm getting better and faster at fine tuning my polar alignment using PHD polar drift align - now recording RMS 0.81" my best yet, and not bad for a 30 year old fork rig.

Venus still dominates the evening sky - after finding her during the day using my Argo Navis connected to Autostar Suite, I took this image at native f10 on my LX5, using my DSI-IIC OSC, stacked in Autostar Envisage, cropped and enlarged in iOS photo editor. 30 x 0.004 sec frames at 90% quality were stacked for this final image. I'll try processing in Registax to see if I can get the image a bit sharper, but expect a webcam and many more frames will be needed.

Tantalising, but Venus is notoriously shy at revealing much...

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