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    Venus Amateur Observing Project

    Submission of Images

    Venus ground-based image Active Archive

    Amateur astronomers are invited to upload their original observation results of Venus in the central Venus ground-based image Active Archive (VAA). The VAA allows you to both upload and retrieve images and has been set up to collect images of Venus in such a way that they are useful for scientists (uncompressed images, no compositions). When used, your work will be mentioned and properly credited in the related scientific publications!

    Access the VAA at      www.rssd.esa.int/vaa

    Processed Images 

    In addition to the VAA, which aims for your original images of Venus (i.e. no mosaics or colour compositions), we also encourage you to submit your final processed results to the Venus section of the British Astronomical Association (BAA), coordinated by Dr Richard McKim.

    Email images to Rmckim5374  aol dot com
    BAA Venus Section http://www.take27.co.uk/BAA_MV/BAA_MVS.html

    Generally the BAA is accepting high quality JPEG images, with either annotation of details of the observation on the image or in an attached file. This should include the following information:

    • Name of observer
    • Observing location (latitude, longitude, height)
    • Weather conditions during observation including cloud cover, seeing conditions, transparency, wind and temperature
    • Telescope type, size, f-ratio
    • Camera type
    • Effective focal length of instrument while imaging, image scale per pixel, camera settings (gain, shutter speed, number of frames) for each filter
    • Filter types
    • Processing methodology (nature of image processing, including corrections and post processing)
    • Image orientation (direction of celestial south & proceeding / following side of image)

    To facilitate use of the images by the VEX team it is also preferable to have images in FITS format with all image details recorded in the FITS header.

    Sample Images
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    Last Update: 11 Jan 2008

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