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Old 06-03-2008, 12:33 PM
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Venus in UV false colour

Venus is well on its way to solar conjunction now, but I wanted to capture one last image of it before it's gone for another few months.

It's a second light image for my Schuler UV filter, and took images in RGB white light as well to create a false-colour Venus.

Venus was only 20deg altitude and the UV channel presents a tough target as it's very dim. I captured at 7.5fps (1/8s exposure) and it needed much, much more exposure.

The good news is, this image is the last from my sessions on Mon/Tue morning and now I can archive the data, clearing space for next time, and get to processing the DSO images taken on those nights

Thanks for looking.
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