Venus 2004/5/1
Venus Information
- Date: May 1, 2004
- Time: 7:37 PM PDT, 40 minutes before sunset at 8:17 PM
Photo Information
- CAMERA: Meade LPI camera
- EXPOSURE: 0.006 sec
- GAIN: 100
- OFFSET: 40
- TRACK: on
- COMBINE: on
- SAVE EVERY IMAGE: off
- DARK SUB: off
- MIN QUALITY: 70
- EVALUATION COUNT: 10
- MONO: off
- KERNEL FILTER: EdgeEnhancedHard, Apply after 10 images
- HISTOGRAM BLACK: 0
- HISTOGRAM WHITE: 255
- HISTOGRAM LOG: off
- ROI: off
- OBJECT: Moon
- IMAGES: 60 seconds of images stacked
- FILE TYPE: BMP
- TRACKING: on Venus
Imaging Equipment
- Telescope: Orion Argonaut™ 150mm Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope,
f/12 focal ratio, 1800mm focal length
- Barlow: Tele Vue 2x Barlow
- Telescope Mount: Orion EQ-3 mount with EQ-3M dual-axis DC motor drive on
Celestron vibration suppression pads
Imaging Processing
- Image quality selection and stacking was done automatically by Meade LPI software.
- Cor Berrevoets Registax Version 2.1.14.0 beta, wavlett processed.
- Adobe Potoshop Version CS, unsharp mask, levels, and crop.
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