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

Sunday, March 08th 2009 - 16:30 (UTC) - focal ratio f/23

I only had 15 minutes of imaging time before the next clouds were coming in. I managed to take this false colour RGB image of Venus. The seeing was very bad.

Red: Baader Infrared Pass
Blue: Wratten 47 + BG39
Green: (R + B) /2

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Philips Toucam Pro II (840k) webcam - SC1.5 with b/w ICX098BL-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10

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Venus

Venus