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Venus 2004/5/21

Venus Information

• Date: May 21, 2004
• Time: 8:42 PM PDT
• Image taken through the clouds at the RCA star party at Hancock Field Station

Photo Information

• CAMERA: Meade LPI camera
• EXPOSURE: unknown
• GAIN: 100
• OFFSET: 50
• 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: about 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: Losmandy G-11

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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