~ Brilliant Venus ~
Wow! Venus is so bright in the evening sky and it’s at its greatest illuminated extent, shinning brilliantly at -4.7 magnitude, it’s like a lighthouse beacon in the western sky…it’s just magnificent!
To find out more about the remarkable planet Venus go to NASA’s website at:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/in-depth/
For an in-depth scientific explanation of ‘Greatest Illuminated Extent please got to:
Title: Illuminated Extent: A Telltale Measure of an Inferior Planet's Disk
Authors: Gingrich, M.
Journal: Journal of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, Vol. 42, p. 18-21
Bibliographic Code: 1999JALPO.42...18G
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1999JALPO..42...18G
My image was taken with 10inch Meade GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope and a ZWO 120 MC-S camera with a 3x Barlow lens attached. An AVI movie was captured with 1400 frames, stacked in RegiStax6,
and processed in PS CS4.
Wow! Venus is so bright in the evening sky and it’s at its greatest illuminated extent, shinning brilliantly at -4.7 magnitude, it’s like a lighthouse beacon in the western sky…it’s just magnificent!
To find out more about the remarkable planet Venus go to NASA’s website at:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/in-depth/
For an in-depth scientific explanation of ‘Greatest Illuminated Extent please got to:
Title: Illuminated Extent: A Telltale Measure of an Inferior Planet's Disk
Authors: Gingrich, M.
Journal: Journal of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, Vol. 42, p. 18-21
Bibliographic Code: 1999JALPO.42...18G
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1999JALPO..42...18G
My image was taken with 10inch Meade GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope and a ZWO 120 MC-S camera with a 3x Barlow lens attached. An AVI movie was captured with 1400 frames, stacked in RegiStax6,
and processed in PS CS4.
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