Re: [APML] The Atmosphere of Venus

["Eddie Guscott" <eddie.guscott@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Jerry

You can also try this movie (also from the Dutch Open Telescope):

http://dot.astro.uu.nl/

and click on "egress movie in g band" or something like that.

In the picture on your website of the scopes all set, 3 were clearly waiting
for the sun to come out of the fog/cloud - what the heck was the fourth
scope pointing at???

Eddie Guscott

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Lodriguss" <jerryapml@astropix.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 6:10 AM
Subject: [APML] The Atmosphere of Venus


>
> I think I've managed to photograph the atmosphere of Venus as the planet
> began to egress from in front of the Sun just after 3rd contact.
>
> It is visible off the solar limb as a thin sliver of arc of sunlight
> refracting through the atmosphere of Venus.
>
> It's at: http://www.astropix.com/HTML/SHOWCASE/VTRANSIT.HTM
>
> Scroll down a bit from the top of the page...
>
> Taken with a 130mm Astro-Physics Starfire refractor at about f/32 with
> eyepiece projection, 1/30th second exposure at ISO 800 with a Nikon D2H
> digital camera shooting Raw NEF and fine JPEG.
>
> I've got comparisons between the original unmanipulated image and some
> enhanced versions, one done with a gradient map in Photoshop.
>
> Jerry
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