In Spring 2020 Venus made her great performance at the evening sky.

My videography equipment got a little bit rusty, so I struggled with the planetary camera I bought two years ago. As an immediate backup I used my DSLR camera to take a few videos with my humble 80/600 mm refractor. With a Barlow lens I extended the focal length to 1745 mm. Don't bother to look for any detail on the surface of Venus. The atmosphere is so dense and so full of carbon dioxide and sulfur trioxide that in visible light the clouds do not allow to observe anything on the ground. The only observable details on Venus are the cloud layers themselves, but these are reserved for advanced equipment allowing to capture the ultraviolet light.