10.1” f/4.5, Mallincam DS432cTEC with 5x barlow
Exposure = 9 msec, Gain = 1/250
November 27, 2021 – 21:50 UTC

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 here on the ground. 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