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With Venus at its "Elongation" predicted on March 24, I finally got a chance to get a photo of it on April 14.
Elongation is when you can see 50% of the planet disk. This the precise elongation actually occurred on March 21.
Since I took the picture on April 14, I missed the exact elongation.
This is evident by the fact that the "Terminator Line" between the upper point and the lower point is curved.
If I would have taken the picture on March 21, the "Terminator Line" would have been perfectly straight with no curve.
The interesting thing about Venus and Mercury is that these planets appear from Earth as a crescent. This is due to the fact that these two planets orbit between the Earth and the Sun. All of the outer planets appear as full discs.

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Date: April 14, 2020
Scope: 14 inch Celestron CGE 1400
Focal Length: 3910 mm; F/11
With TeleVue 4x Barlow Magnification is Approximately 400X
Camera: Nikon D810A
ISO Setting: 200
MOV taken for 1 minutes or approximately 6000 Frames
Planetary Processing using ImagesPlus

 

 

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