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Community photo entitled Venus in broad daylight by Roberto Ortu on 09/14/2026 at Cabras, Sardinia, Italy

Venus in broad daylight

On 09/14/2026 01:00 pm by Roberto Ortu | Website | Cabras, Sardinia, Italy

This is a photo of the planet Venus taken in broad daylight on September 14 after being occulted by the Moon. The image shows well the phase that is waning in this period with the sickle that will be increasingly thinner until the inferior conjunction next month, when it will reach even the minimum distance from Earth.
I decided to try filming the planet after the occultation because I noticed the seeing slightly better than before.

Celestron 114/910 Newtonian telescope
Mount Eq2 Sky-Watcher
Planetary Camera QHY5L-II-C
UV/IR cut filter

Firecapture 2.7 for a video containing 2641 frames.
PIPP, AS!4, Registax 6, Astrosurface W2 to process 774 frames.