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Venus and the Pleiades in April 2020

Inspired by other blogs such as Heads UP! taking cool pictures of Venus near the Pleiades, I knew I had to get in on the action myself.

Venus is still a remarkable and bright experience, in the West sky shortly after Sunset.

I didn’t realize until tonight that I had yet to try afocal astrophotography with my iPhone.

As with Jupiter, I relied on all of my past experiences for the preliminary camera settings, specifically for ISO and exposure.

Another benefit, I believe, of the new camera is that I can finally process a Drizzle in Autostakkert.

But then I thought, what if I chose only two of the videos instead of the full three?

As I had not filmed Saturn since last year, I was very worried that the results would not be good.

Wonderful stargazing weather. That is how I describe last night, though I am sure some would disagree because it was a little chill.

What is neat about lining all three images side-by-side is that they were taken with the same telescope and same equipment setup.

This is my first good image of Jupiter in 2018. The focus was near-perfect and about as good as I am going to get with my equipment.