[APML] A Different View of Venus' Atmosphere?

["Kevin Wigell" <kwemail@twcny.rr.com>]

Congratulations, Jerry, for your accomplishment.

I'm surprised no one else has brought this up, but it appears to me that the image posted by Vincent Peris and Juan Conejero,

http://pleiades-astrophoto.com/2004/venus_transit/venus_transit_1.en.html

also shows Venus' atmosphere, albeit in a different manner. Something is causing the granulation on the solar surface to look different near Venus. This is most apparent in the hi-res version of the image.

Is this an imaging artifact, or an effect of Venus' atmosphere?

Kevin Wigell
www.kwastronomy.com

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