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Steven Bellavia
Southold, NY
01/08/2022
11:40 am

Equipment Details:

Celestron C5 SCT, ZWO ASI 183MC camera, SkyWatcher EQ6R-Pro equatorial mount

Post-processing Details:

Best 660 of 3,300 frames at 7 msec each, aligned and stacked in AutoStakkert!

Image Details:

Venus at Inferior Conjunction, January 8th, 2022.
0.3% illumination, 4.86 degrees from the sun.
It will not be this close to the sun again until 2028