If anyone who had clear skies looked to the West this evening anywhere from one to two hours after sunset, they should have gotten a great look at Venus. Tonight it will be at about it's brightest for the entire year. Now if you missed it tonight, it'll still be almost as bright for the next few evenings. Anyway, I decided to try and get a picture. And since at the moment Venus is shown as a crescent I decide to see how good an image I could get, and below is my best shot of the evening (out of 44 total shots as I did a lot of bracketing):
April 2020 (Sony a6000)
Now this was shot using my mirrorless Sony a6000 (24.3MP) with a 400mm lens (35mm equivalent 600mm). It was shot at f16.0, 1/1000 sec, ISO400. And yes, this is NOT the full image, it was cropped to 1149 × 768 pixels at 72 pixels/inch.
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