Contains:  Solar system body or event
Venus on 2021-11-17, JDJ

Venus on 2021-11-17

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

Continued imaging of Venus during the 2021 evening apparition.  These images were captured on the night of November 17, 2021. Venus was 31.9 arcsec in diameter and ~38% illuminated in this image. Taken around sunset under average seeing conditions.

Imaged with a C8 Evo, ZWO ADC, Baader UV-IR Cut filter, and ZWO ASI224MC. Imaging train was configured to give ~F/20. Image capture using Firecapture (see below for exposure settings). Stacking in AutoStakkert3 (best 2% of ~60000 frames captured over 180 seconds). Color balancing and Wavelet sharpening in Registax6. Derotated and combined three images in WinJUPOS.

Exposure settings for UV-IR Cut Filter images: Shutter=0.6ms, Gain=250, Histogram=56%, ~300 FPS

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