Post processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5
Venus, second planet from the Sun, shrouded in dense cloud ~90 times Earth's atmospheric pressure, high in Carbon Dioxide, causing a "runaway greenhouse effect" with ~400C surface temperature. Galileo was the first to discover the phases of Venus in 1610, which helped him postulate a Sun centred solar system, instead of Earth centred. Captured with BackyardEOS 5X Planetary mode - 500 frames @ ISO320 at 1/30 sec. Processed with Registax 6 with best 20% stacked, no wavelet processing. Further processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5. Telescope - Bintel BT200 f/4.0 Newtonian (borrowed from Stephen Boyd) with Tele Vue 2X PowerMate, No filter, Canon 40D DSLR field 32' x 48', Ambient 18C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS 2.09 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope not used.
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