[Shiraz (Ray)]

This evening's very hopeful image of Venus just before it set (GSO 8 inch at about f30 with red filter and DMK). Seeing was atrocious so low down, but the thing is so bright (compared to Saturn!!) that very short exposures were possible. Had difficulty focusing and there are no features to use in deciding on an appropriate deconvolution kernel to correct for atmospheric blur. Image scale and phase are about right though, so hopefully it is fairly close to reality. Want to get a sequence showing the changing phase over the next few months. Thanks for looking.