I got Celestron NSX 11in with some other gadgets, Williams optics donated telescope when I was in Iraq,, the skies at night over there one of the best
places to observe, no and I mean no city light at all, now the dust was bad but on a good night in the mid 50s it was price less, was there when we
had the lunar eclipse happened in 07, even got some faint shots of the comet that was seen in Australia . That's a pretty good shot of Venus you got a Coranodo type telescope?