Last year, Venus never appeared in the evening sky at a high altitude, so the seeing was always very poor. This spring, Venus is getting very high in the west around sunset, so it is finally possible to get a few minutes of observations from my back yard before it sets into the trees. I look forward to getting a sequence of pictures of the various phases, but here is one of my first attempts at stacking during the gibbous phase.
Date: 2023-03-05 18:40
Location: Carlington, Ottawa, ON
Equipment: B&L 8" SCT, ZWO ASI178MC camera, wedge mount with motor
Settings: gain 48, 5 minute video, shutter 1.9 ms
Processing: FireCapture, PiPP (monochrome from green channel), AutoStakkert! (best 5% of 3625 frames), Registax (wavelets), Photoshop Elements