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Venus

The second planet from the Sun in our solar system, sometimes referred to as the "morning star" and/or the "evening star".

 

Date/Location:  11 January 2006  Corringham, Essex
Equipment:  Mewlon 210
Camera/Exposure:  Canon 300d dSLR 1/250sec
Processing:  
Notes:  2 days from inferior conjunction with the Sun and only 5.5 degrees away. I managed to get this picture (through bushes) just 4 minutes before sunset.

 

 

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Date/Location:  30 March 2004  Corringham, Essex
Equipment:  12" F4 Orion Optics (UK) reflector with x5 powermate = F20
Camera/Exposure:  Toucam Pro webcam - 66 frames:
Processing:  Stacked & wavelet filters in Registax, layers & curves in Photoshop
Notes:  50% illuminated and 18 arc seconds diameter. Seeing was awful (3/10?) and very windy

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