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Venus, Ryan Caputo

Venus

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Here is Venus! Not the best picture (there is a weird artifact surrounding the disk, anyone know what that is?), but I am happy to have something. Spring has presented terrible conditions - both in clouds and seeing. Imaging at 1800mm focal length is brutal when the seeing is poor, and so I have only been able to capture a few hours this spring. I decided I might as well try something that requires a bit less time, and seeing as how Venus was high in the sky at sunset, I went ahead and imaged it.

I also do not have real color filters. I have the Astronomik 802 and 742 nm infrared filters, and a photometric V filter (green-ish). I figured "might as well see what happens if I try color though that!" and I got something interesting. I'll have to try it on Jupiter where there are more colors to see how this weird filter combination presents things, but for now the result is better than monochrome.

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Venus, Ryan Caputo