Venus

Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love. It is the brightest natural object in the night sky, except for the Moon, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6. Because Venus is an inferior planet from Earth, it never appears to venture far from the Sun: its elongation reaches a maximum of 47.8°. Venus reaches its maximum brightness shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset, for which reason it is often called the Morning Star or the Evening Star.

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Venus

Monday, May 17th 2010 - 17:00 (UTC) - focal ratio f/28

Animation of two stacks of recordings in infrared light (>807nm) taken 45 minutes apart.

You can see some cloud structures moving on the planet.

Seeing was not very good (but hurray for long wavelengths!), next time I hope the clouds don't interfere with imaging, because it would be nice to get a longer/smoother animation.

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Modified DK21AU04.as with ICX618ALA-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10

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