This is an overprocessed image of Mars, taken from Western Washington on January 22 at roughly 6:45 p.m. It was taken with an 8 inch Meade LX200, using a DSI Pro II CCD camera, 8 second single exposure. Please click to continue reading as I'm very puzzled by this image.

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This triple image of Venus puzzled - and alarmed me - at the same time. It was taken through an 8" LX200 - a used telescope that I had recently purchased from a gentleman in Bothell, Washington. This image, and others similar to it, were captured using a Canon EOS 20D DSLR camera mounted to the aforementioned telescope - a setup that had, in recent past, given me stunning images. What had happened? >>

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