My latest shot of Venus
I captured the Planet Venus in UV(ultra-violet 320-380nm) & IR(infrared 850nm) & Green wavelengths,
showing the clouds tops structure of Sulfuric Acid Clouds in the Venusian atmosphere.
Venus is the second planet from the Sun and Earth’s closest planetary neighbor.
It’s distance is currently ~ 61 Million miles from Earth,
or 98,955,797 kilometers, equivalent to 0.661479 Astronomical Units.
Even though Mercury is closer to the Sun,
Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system. Its thick atmosphere is full of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, and it has clouds of sulfuric acid.
The Surface temperatures on Venus are about 900 degrees Fahrenheit (475 degrees Celsius) – hot enough to melt lead. The surface is a rusty color and it’s peppered with intensely crunched mountains and thousands of large volcanoes.
Captured on 06-10-2023 @ 01:38 UT from Dayton, Ohio. I was imaging at dusk, sky still blue, but needed to capture it before my neighbors trees covered it up. C-11 SCT telescope, F20 via a 2x Barlow, (5600mm), Software Bisque MyT Mount, QHY 290M uncooled Cmos Camera, ZWO 5 position filter wheel, Baader IR RGB UV filters, Fire_Capture Software, saved as SER video File, Stacked in Autostakkert, Wavelets in Regitaxs6, combined UV, IR & Green channels in Maxim DL., final in Adobe Raw CC 2023.
I captured 2000 frames for each channel in IR, UV, and standard RGB files, I then processed them all,
choosing the best filter channel combinations that best displayed the most cloud tops details visible during my imaging session.
Best Regards,
John Chumack
www.galacticimages.com
