Venus crescent 14/3/2017

[A budding astronomer]

Tonight I figured it would be a good idea to image the planet Venus through my 4.5" reflector. I took out my telescope, Neximage Burst, eyepieces and my laptop outside with me, looking to the west I was greeted with a beautiful, pink sunset and an amazingly bright Venus. I set up the telescope, centered Venus and used it to align my Nexstar. I pulled out my 25mm and inserted my Neximage. I recorded two 1500 frame videos and one 2000 frame video.

My three images turned out well, One did have a problem when stacking but it doesn't affect the actual picture of the planet. In my last post many of you told me to turn down my exposure, I did and in my opinion, improved the picture drastically!

I would love to hear your opinions on the images and how I can improve them.

Thank you and clear skies!

Adam

[Pete Presland]

A nice crescent. I would try and lower the brightness little when capturing, you will get a thinner crescent hopefully. What stacking programme are you using?

[A budding astronomer]

1 hour ago, bunnygod1 said:

A nice crescent. I would try and lower the brightness little when capturing, you will get a thinner crescent hopefully. What stacking programme are you using?

Hi Bunnygod, thanks! I'm using Registax 6.1.

[Pete Presland]

3 minutes ago, A budding astronomer said:

Hi Bunnygod, thanks! I'm using Registax 6.1.

Autostakkert2 is very good as well, worth a try. http://www.autostakkert.com/

[A budding astronomer]

23 hours ago, bunnygod1 said:

Autostakkert2 is very good as well, worth a try. http://www.autostakkert.com/

I have heard about it on other forums, I must give it a shot. Maybe when I'm imaging Jupiter next time it's clear. Thanks for the link!