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    June 2007

    New views of Venus in the ultraviolet have been obtained by Jean-Pierre Prost, France, on 4 June, just a few days prior to Venus's greatest eastern elongation.

    Processing: correction of background level (set to 0) for each raw picture, then stack of 2700 best images out of 4000 captured frames with IRIS software. Then wavelet processing with IRIS and finally Lucy Richardson processing with MAXIMDL software. Assembly of all the pictures in Photoshop.

    May 2007

    With the currently favourable observing times for Venus a new set of images have been submitted.

    Here are some images from 3 May 2007. Fair seeing. Some striking markings in the IR wavelengths. The dark equatorial band in UV is completely absent in the IR images. The 656nm narrow band image also shows the markings although they are very weak. Images by Damian Peach.
     

    March 2007

    With the currently favourable observing times for Venus a new set of images have been submitted.

    Date: 2007-03-15, UT: 18h20m - 18h40m
    Instr.: 16" Cassegrain f/10, prime focus
    Filter: Standard U filter
    Camera: FLI Dream Machine CCD camera with E2V sensor
    Observer: Detlef Koschny, Netherlands

    Sum of 90 images with 0.2 s exposure time each, stacked with Registax. South is up.

    Venus observed by Silvia Kowollik from Germany

    September 2006

    These views of Venus were obtained by Arnaud van Kranenburg on 10 September 2006, using a Celstron C9.25 telescope with a set of RGB filters (Astronomik), a Violet bandpass filter at 390 nm and two Schott longpass filters.

    August 2006

    These views of Venus were obtained by Arnaud van Kranenburg on 19 August 2006, using a Celstron C9.25 telescope with a set of RGB filters (Astronomik) and a Violet bandpass filter at 390 nm.

    April 2006

    The first images from observing campaigns are now available. Amateur observer Damian Peach acquired a series of images from Barbados at around the same time as Venus Express entered orbit around the planet.

    Venus observed by British amateur astronomer Damian Peach, 13 - 21 April, during an observing campaign on Barbados, West Indies. The upper row was taken using a Schuler UV filter at 370 nm, the lower row using Schott RG1000 filter at 1000 nm. Each image was produced by stacking 2000 to 3000 video frames.

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