Venus

Authors: Magnus Nyborg, Jakob Selbing
Object: Venus
Exposure: 5 x 0.02 s
Equipment: MX5-C through Meade LX200 at f/23 (approx.).

Comment: This first image of Venus was produced under rather poor conditions, with atmospheric turbulence blurring the image. Still it is a rather nice and appealing image of the clouded and almost completely homogenous planet ("details" on surface are probably only image processing artefacts).