Phases of Venus
Just as our Moon goes through phases, Venus's visible sunlit hemisphere waxes and wanes as we orbit around our star. Gliding along its interior orbit between Earth and Sun, Venus grows larger but narrows to a thin crescent, as it approaches our planet and swings closer to our line-of-sight to the Sun.
2023 Evening Apparition
In this composite of backyard telescopic images we see the steady changes for Venus during it's appearance as our evening star at 2023. It reached inferior conjunction on August 13, 2023, passing 7.7° south of the Sun in the sky. After a few days, Venus shines clearly above the eastern horizon in predawn skies as planet Earth's morning star.
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ASICap
PIPP
Autostakkert!3
RegiStax6
Photoshop 2023
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ZWO ASI224MC
Sky-Watcher Skymax 90
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Sky-Watcher Skymax 90
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
TeleVue Barlow 2×
Baader UV/IR cut filter
Baader UV/IR cut filter
2021 Evening Apparition
In this composite of backyard telescopic images we see the steady changes for Venus during it's appearance as our evening star at the later half of 2021. It reached inferior conjunction on January 8, 2021, passing 5° north of the Sun in the sky. After a few days, Venus shines clearly above the eastern horizon in predawn skies as planet Earth's morning star.
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PIPP
23-10-21: stack 5% of 16906 frames
05-11-21: stack 7% of 15154 frames
25-11-21: stack 7% of 12254 frames
05-12-21: stack 5% of 14040 frames
09-12-21: stack 7% of 11346 frames
20-12-21: stack 5% of 18841 frames
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PIPP
Autostakkert!3
Registax6
Photoshop 2022
--Equipment--
Canon EOS 4000D
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Canon EOS 4000D
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Sky-Watcher Skymax 90
Celestron Plossl 1.25" 8mm
