Venus - 12th March 2006

[iceman]

Hi guys.

Here's my first Venus of 2006, taken yesterday morning at about 6:15am once it cleared the trees at about 35° altitude.

The 2 images are from 2 different avi's taken with different exposures, stacked in registax, split into R/G/B in AstraImage and the green channel only was taken.

Thanks for looking.

[Dennis]

Excellent Venus images Mike.

Was the green channel the best? Or is that the "preferred" wavelength for hi-res images of Venus?

Cheers

Dennis

[asimov]

Very nice capture Mike !

[Robert_T]

Nice oneMike:thumbsup: wonder if the blue channel revealed any cloud variations. I saw Venus there the other morning and would have been tempted if not for the trees.

[iceman]

Hi Dennis. I used the very scientific method of "which one looked best" :)

nah, they all appeared roughly the same. I just chose the channel with the sharpest/cleanest edges.

You can't get cloud details using the visible wavelenghts we are. I've seen David Rivas on the CN forums get cloud details using a UV filter when imaging Venus. Not sure how much they are. Would be nice to own though.

Thanks for the comments.

[davidpretorius]

these are great mike!

[ving]

nice n' sharp mike :)

[bird]

Very nice again Mr Iceman.

Bird

[Norm T]

Great shot, the two story house next door blocks my view of that.

[RB]

Fantastic Mike, the second one is slighty better to my eyes.

Excellent.