Venus Apr 12 - UV+RGB

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

I continue to experiment with different methods of capturing and processing Venus. This image is a UV+RGB, so the colour is real only the saturation has been boosted, and the UV provides contrast.

C11 + Orion RGB filters and Custom Scientific U filter + Televue 3x Barlow + DMK21AU04.AS camera.

Each channel is a stack of 3000 out of a total of 4000 frames. AS!2 with around 30 APs.

I tried the U channel at 1/15 s exposure, which gave about 50% histogram, and 1/30 s which gave only 25% histogram. The 1/15s video gave a better stack.

The clouds are doing some interesting things on Venus.

-Ivan

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Very nice, love the scale.

[luigi]

Beautiful Venus image and the detail is really fantastic.

[Deeno]

Fascinating image

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Originally Posted by Astroman

Very nice, love the scale.

Thanks Andrew, that's the native scale, straight from the camera.

Originally Posted by luigi

Beautiful Venus image and the detail is really fantastic.

Thanks Luigi, at 15fps I can get a reasonably long stack which lets the detail come out.

Originally Posted by Deeno

Fascinating image

Thanks Deeno, glad you liked it.

-Ivan

[Clayton]

Very nice Ivan!

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Thanks Rob. At this low elevation I'm struggling to get the finer detail I've seen in some Northern Hemisphere images, but the larger banding is certainly coming up a treat.

-Ivan

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Hi Ivan - that is super - your best to date?

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Originally Posted by Matt Wastell

Hi Ivan - that is super - your best to date?

Thanks Matt, certainly one of the ones I'm happiest with. Out of about a dozen sessions, I've got 4 images so far this elongation that I'm really pleased with.

-Ivan

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

When you get a few more - show them all together - I do enjoy your Venus!

Originally Posted by lepton3

Thanks Matt, certainly one of the ones I'm happiest with. Out of about a dozen sessions, I've got 4 images so far this elongation that I'm really pleased with.

-Ivan

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Originally Posted by Matt Wastell

When you get a few more - show them all together - I do enjoy your Venus!

That's the project.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

beaut image Ivan - actual colour as well. Regards Ray