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By Chris Predom

I took these images on March 10 using my 8-inch f4.5 dob. The first picture was taking using my 4-mm Astrotech uma (80 degree) eyepiece.  The image shows a starfish-like shadow.  The image was done holding my iPhone to the eyepiece.  I then used the iPhone zoom feature to zoom in on the image coming from scope to enlarge the shadow.

The next two images are the region around Copernicus using the 4-mm eyepiece and an iPhone zoom closer to the terminator region from Copernicus.

The image of Venus was taken with same scope using a 30-mm Tuthill Plossl . I zoomed the image coming from the scope.