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Venus 27 May
Today's Venus attempt this afternoon proved more challenging but more rewarding than the one 10 days ago, at least visually. Photographically, not quite as good.
At a height of just 16° and elongation of 12° the crescent was no longer easy to spot in the dob's 8x50 finder, it took some time to locate using a low power eyepiece. Clear sky but a slight haze lower down. Seeing was OK in general but at this low altitude only allowed medium powers. The visual impression is now changing from interesting to "you don't see that every day". The crescent is starting to look strangely dimensionless at medium powers. It has length alright but no width to speak of. The horns of the crescent will start to approach each other in a few days' time.
8" dob @f/18, red filter and ASI120MM. Not expecting many more from this setup between now and conjunction day. Refractor will take over soon I think.
Have added a lower magnification shot to approximate visual impression at about 100x
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