Venus - 22 Apr

[reconair]

Here's the best I could pull from 2047 frames.
Takahashi TOA 130/G-11
ToUcam Pro II and Schuler UVBRI Filter
K3CCDTools and PS CS2
Taken on 22 Apr 07

It's taken me this long to pull a decent rendition of our beloved second planet.
I believe there is some cloud definition there. What do you think?

[budguinn]

Scott, there does seem to be some differences in the cloud covering....nicely done.

[Gary Beal]

Well done Scott, it really is a cow of an object to image. Sometimes, twilight or even daytime is better.
Gary

[galacticphoto]

Very nice Scott. That's a lot of frames to stack. Imaging Venus really does require a different approach compared to other planets.

Did you do this before sunset, or after, and what was the planet's elevation in the sky at the time? How was seeing?

Robert

[BT Technologies]

Great shot of Venus Scott. I am amazed that you were able to stack that many frames without the program crashing like it does on me!!

Well done!!!

[reconair]

All,

Thanks for the positive comments.

To answer Robert's question -- I started taking frames after the sun went below the horizon. That was the best seeing with Venus about 15 degrees above the horizon. Seeing got progressively worse over the next 6 AVI attempts of between 600-700 frames each.

And Brian, I don't ever seem to have issues with K3ccdTools no matter how many frames I stack. It's Registax that hates me and always crashes before I can finish the alignment sequence.

I'm gonna keep messin with the frames that I have in case I can pull a better one.

[reconair]

A little more fiddling with this image I tried for a more natural color balance.