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Community photo entitled Daytime Crescent Venus, in Infrared by Steven Bellavia on 03/02/2025 at Smithfield, VA

Daytime Crescent Venus, in Infrared

On 03/02/2025 03:19 pm by Steven Bellavia | Website | Smithfield, VA

I was trying for the Ashen Light, but failed.
But I did get a nice image of crescent Venus, using a 685nm bandpass-filter with a monochrome camera using lucky-imaging techniques.

Explore Scientific 152mm f/16 Maksutov-Cassegrain
ZWO ASI 294MM pro camera
Baader 685nm bandpass-filter
SkyWatcher EQ6R-Pro equatorial mount

I took the best 2154 (20%) of 10768 frames from a 2-minute video
11msec exposures, Gain 60, 89 fps
aligned and stacked in Kraaikamp AutoStakkert!
Wavelet sharpening/denoising in Lucien AstroSurface