Venus

Blogged by Xiao Sun on April 27, 2009 and tagged with Sample Images, Sun, Venus.

Patricio Dominguez Alonso, from Madrid, took this image with his DMK 31AF03.AS:

He wrote us in the e-mail:

Recently I have taken a image of Venus near the inferior conjuction using a DMK 31AF03.AS with a near infrared (Astronomik IR Planet Pro 742 filter). The telescope was a vintage Celestron C8 on a CGE mount. The picture was taken just afernoon under a heavy sun for the april standards. The atmospheric turbulence was strong and the video images were blured and shaked (see the youtube samples, links given bellow).

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The ability of IC Capture.AS to record ROI was extremelly important as allow me to record a high number of frames alowing a relativelly small file size ready to process. I have used Registax 5, I made first a reference frame from the best 150 frames of a total of 3000 from the first video. In a second run, I used such a reference frame for further alignment. Then I selected by hand the bestframes. This is the result after removing ring artefacts and noise in Registax.

That is quite a lot of details Patricio. Thank you!

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