Venus - 12th March 2006

iceman (Mike) · #1 13-03-2006, 06:44 AM

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 · #2 13-03-2006, 07:30 AM

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 (John) · #3 13-03-2006, 07:39 AM

Very nice capture Mike !

Robert_T · #4 13-03-2006, 07:45 AM

Nice oneMike

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 (Mike) · #5 13-03-2006, 07:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dennis

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

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robert

wonder if the blue channel revealed any cloud variations

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 · #6 13-03-2006, 09:39 AM

these are great mike!

ving (David) · #7 13-03-2006, 10:08 AM

nice n' sharp mike

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #8 13-03-2006, 10:15 AM

Very nice again Mr Iceman.

Bird

Norm T · #9 13-03-2006, 02:45 PM

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

RB (Andrew) · #10 13-03-2006, 04:16 PM

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

Excellent.