mercury and venus from snake valley

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Finishing off the data I brought back from Snake Valley...

Mercury was poorly placed, and the thermal variations were so severe that it sometimes disappeared completely in the raw frames.

Venus was better.

regards, Bird

[davidpretorius]

That is a great venus shot. Best i have seen!!!

Now where is mrs planet #4?????

Cmon saturn, i know you want to be processed!!!

[RB (Andrew)]

Best Venus shot I've seen.

Well done.

[xstream (John)]

Great Venus Bird, mind you Mercury isn't to shabby either.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

WOW!!!! Excellent Bird!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wombat_In_Space (Darren)]

WOW !!! Bird and the images just get better and better form the SV Camp.

[matt]

Great images Bird.

Venus is amazing. That's as sharp as any image I've seen.

It's got a real 3D ... "liquid" smoothness to it.

It almost looks computer generated. Almost

[danielsun]

That really is fantastic bird ! well done!!!

[rumples riot]

Nice images Anthony.

[asimov (John)]

That's simply great bird! 'as above'.....best venus I've ever seen!

[LT_Ng]

Bird,

Absolutely stunning images, especially for the Venus. Seemed Snake Valley is a dream place for planetary imaging.

Would try to use a UV pass filter to catch cloud structure on Venus?

LT

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

LT, I may try something like that, but I don't have a uv-pass filter. I might buy one and try on venus again when it's in the pre-dawn sky in a few months when I might get some steady seeing.

regards, Bird