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117x August 2 1981 through December 31, 1981 A time lapse sketch showing the phases of Venus through a 5 month period. The August 2 sketch shows Venus just past full, slightly less than 20" in size. As Venus progresses through its phases towards a thin crescent shape, it gets larger as it gets closer to Earth, until December 31 when it is almost 60" across. |
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10.1'' reflector Mallincam DS432cTEC with 5x barlow Exposure = 9 msec, Gain = 1/250 November 27, 2021 Venus on this date was about a month past greatest eastern elongation and at maximum brightness of magnitude -4.9, approximately 25% illuminated. Size is about 35 arc seconds across. At this brightness it is said that Venus casts shadows. Image stacked in Autostakkert using the top 25% of 1009 SER frames, post-processed (sharpened) in GIMP. North at 1 o'clock, East at 10 o'clock |
