Venus in UV False Colour - 23rd June 2009

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi all

This image of Venus in Ultra Violet light was captured on the morning of the 23rd June – the same morning that I captured my first Mars of 2009 and Jupiter with the NEB Upheaval. It was a busy morning!

The colours reveal some albedo differences in the cloud tops on Venus, and come from a combination of using a Schuler UV filter for capturing the luminance (detail) data, and processing the image as a false-colour composite using colour data from the RGB channels as well as the UV channel.

The seeing was only average, and Venus was at a respectable 30° altitude – shining brilliantly at mag -4.18.

More here:
Venus in UV False Colour - 23rd June

I’m still waiting for a morning of great seeing to capture an excellent image of the cloud tops on Venus – but with the Sun not rising until 7am (well after the time I’ve had to go to work), it limits my opportunities at this time of year. Venus is on its way back towards the Sun over the next 5 months, heading for inferior conjunction in December, so hopefully I’ll get a few more chances before Venus dips too low.

Thanks for looking.

[Lester]

Nice image Mike. Its difficult to get much at all on Venus, I guess the difference in colour is showing up cloud layers of varying thickness.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Not to shabby at all Mike,

A most respectable result, looks good to me, nice contrast in the colour variations.

Cheers
Trevor

[RB (Andrew)]

Mike this is fantastic !!
To tease out such detail in the cloud system on Venus is just fantastic !!!

Well done on such a great capture.

[rogerg (Roger)]

The best detail I've ever seen from an amateur shot of Venus

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by rogerg

The best detail I've ever seen from an amateur shot of Venus

Originally Posted by RB

Mike this is fantastic !!
To tease out such detail in the cloud system on Venus is just fantastic !!!

Well done on such a great capture.

^^^^^^^^^ fully agree wonderful shot.

going for the yearly planet roundup again?

[iceman (Mike)]

Would love to, but I think I've missed my opportunity with Mercury!

And Neptune and Uranus are getting away from me too!

[Darth Wader (Wade)]

Another great image Mike!

[ColHut (Colin)]

That looks great. By the way why are these images so much more fuzzy away from the planet than say your shots of Jupiter?

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks guys. Colin, low altitude and poor seeing are the culprits

[ColHut (Colin)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Thanks guys. Colin, low altitude and poor seeing are the culprits

Thanks Mike!

[Alchemy (Clive)]

amazing.

it looks like you will be able to put together a montage of planets for this year. quite a detailed one at that.


clive

[Deeno]

That is very cool!