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Changing face of Venus: 5th Nov - 2nd Dec
Hi there
Venus is racing towards a close encounter with Earth early in the New Year (inferior conjunction on January 11). Angular size and brightness of the planet has been growing quickly over the past month, here's a couple of images illustrating these changes.
Taken in visible spectrum first is a composite of two f30 captures and the second a single f40 pic from beginning of November. Approximately 1200 best frames stacked in each case, y800 60 fps mode @ 1/3333 sec exposure. Processed in AS!2, Registax, ACDSee and Photoshop.
Unfortunately bmp to jpg format change seems to degrade overall quality somewhat (even with the lowest compression setting). I also got slight diffraction pattern artefact around the bright limb on November images.. seeing was hardly ideal on both evenings (only 10% of frames were usable).
Thanks for looking
- Seb
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