Planet Venus is brightest sky object, excluding Sun and Moon. As second planet from Sun, she shown phases similar to Moon. Diameter is 12 104 km.

Venus obtained on April 21. 2004. (Celestron 9,25 at f31: focal reducer f6,3 + Barlow TeleVue 5x. 450 frames processed in Registax.

Image of Venus with C8 using Pixcel 237 CCD camera through red filter (exposure 0,01 sec). Eyepiece projection method (f30). February 08.2001.