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    Venus Amateur Observing Project

    Useful Websites

    Venus Ground-Based Image Active Archive
    http://www.rssd.esa.int/vaa

    British Astronomical Association Venus Section
    http://www.take27.co.uk/BAA_MV/BAA_MVS.html

    Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO) Venus Section
    http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/alpo/venus.html

    The website of Damian Peach (an experienced planetary imager)
    http://www.damianpeach.com/

    The website of Christophe Pellier (the first amateur astronomer to detect the 1μm emission from the night side of Venus). There is an excellent introduction (in French) to planetary imaging on this website
    http://www.astrosurf.org/pellier/

    Registax image processing software website
    http://registax.astronomy.net/

    A news article describing Chris Pellier's observation of the 1μm emission from the night side of Venus
    http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1266_1.asp

    List of all wavelength bands that allow observing features on Venus, compiled by Daniel Fischer
    http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/venus/

    Giotto image processing software website (in German)
    http://www.videoastronomy.org/giotto.htm

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