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Eliot Herman
Tucson AZ
01/01/2022
05:45 pm

Equipment Details:

180 mm Skywatcher Mak telescope, 2X Televue Powermate, and Nikon Z7II camera on a Vixen EQ mount.

Post-processing Details:

A video was stacked and processed by deconvolution and wavelets, ported to Photoshop. The B&W image was colorized to light yellow of Venus CO2 and Sulfuric Acid atmosphere.

Image Details:

Venus is now a very thin crescent 61seconds in diameter. Not up very long after Sunset, worse it dives behind tree branches quickly and the mountains to my SW in Tucson. Venus is bright -4 mag until it dives into the horizon haze. The thin crescent is always striking to see,

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