My first attempt at imaging Venus. I’m pretty happy with the result, considering that Venus was quite low in altitude. I think the focus may have been slightly off as I tried to focus on the planet directly, next time I will focus on a star and then slew to the target.
Acquisition:
- Skies: Bortle 8
- Seeing: poor
- Video: 15 minutes continuous
Equipment:
- Skywatcher 10 inch GoTo Dobsonian
- ZWO ASI 224 MC
- ZWO Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector
- Televue Powermate 5x
- Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow filter
Processing:
- Planetary Imaging PreProcessor: image centering, cropping, frame rejection
- AstroSurface: stacked best 30% of frames
- Registax: wavelets sharpening
- Photoshop: crop, levels