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Last photo of Venus taken on 19 March 2020. Seeing good even if lower than the previous day. I added 18.0000 frames. More info about the setup and photo here here: https://www.astroandnature.com/blog/pos ... -19-venus/
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Excellent!
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Bigzmey wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 12:04 amExcellent!
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Superb!
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Michael Barbieri wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:59 pm Last photo of Venus taken on 19 March 2020. Seeing good even if lower than the previous day. I added 18.0000 frames. More info about the setup and photo here here: https://www.astroandnature.com/blog/pos ... -19-venus/

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Beautiful image Tom!

Really nice cloud details. Nice work!
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Stunning! I've never seen such a "detailed" photo of Venus like that. Hubblesque.
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Granted, I've been doing AP for very long and haven't seen a whole lot of shots of Venus, but this is the best one I've seen! I have never seen that much detail in a Venus picture that isn't from NASA! Great job :) Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for the image really fantastic I thought it was virtually impossible to get any detail for us.
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That's good!
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