Venus
Taken by Kevin Witman on March 26, 2018 @ Cochranville, PA, USA
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Date Taken: 2018:04:06 23:49:52
  
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As impressive as Venus appears in our evening twilight sky visually, through the telescope it is definitely not a "wow" kind of object. Exhibiting a gibbous phase, it sports a small disk barely 11 seconds of an arc in size. I used a Meade LX50 10" SCT at f/10 and a ZWO ASI120MM mono camera. I colored the image to enhance the subtle yellowish cloud features near the center right of the disk.
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Venus is plenty impressive I think.
I only have a 6 inch telescope, and this is a compilation of Venus shots from last year.
spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=134166

Why did you colour venus mostly blue/purple? Couldnt you enhance the clouds without changing the colour?
Posted by MaxMallon 2018-04-07 17:00:42
Have you observed Venus recently through your 6 telescope? The 2nd planet is still positioned on the far side of the Sun with respect to Earth a whopping 144 million miles distant. Its disk is currently just a little bit larger than Mars which is still very small to reveal much surface detail.

I used a mono camera where colors are assigned to each filter. I actually used Blue, Red, and RG610 filters since the atmosphere was too turbulent in the green channel. Cloud details are very subltle on Venus and really only stand out with a UV filter. After playing around with various combinations the colors I selected seemed to work the best. Plus, my preference was towards blue purple Venus image over a mundane solid white disk.
Posted by krwitman 2018-04-07 18:06:16
 
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