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| Summarising the western elongation I put together an overview of the best images I made. It shows Venus slowly retreating. After november, conditions grew worse and Venus became less favourably placed in the morning sky. This image was exhibitioned at the "Huis Marseille" in Amsterdam in 2010. | |||
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| 23 october 2007 | The best image of Venus I have taken so far. Great seeing and lovely details on the disc. | A few days later, Venus shows some interesting detail again. | 11 october 2007 |
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| 06 october 2007 | The first succesfull attempt at imaging in UV after the conjunction. Now that the phase of Venus is getting larger, the markings become visble again. | ||
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Venus shows it's dark side. The glow of the hot surface and lower atmospheric layers can penetrate the thick atmosphere. At small phase angles the bright dayside decreases enough in intensity to record this faint glow. The dayside is overexposed as an overoexposed area. The night side reveals itself as a faint glow, comparable to the Ashen light of the Moon, but otherwise completely unrelated. In theory it should be possible to record surface details here, but distortions in the images, maybe reflections caused by the CCD lid, make this impossible to ascertain . |
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| The conjuction of Venus was followed over several weeks, and 7 images before, during and after the conjuction were combined to give this overview. At the conjuction itself, imaging conditions were rather difficult, but I'm glad I captured this most important image of the series. This composition was also exhibitioned at the "Huis Marseille" in Amsterdam in 2010. The backround was adapted to the various background intensities (the background grew increasingly bright as the conjunction progressed). In addition, I coloured it blue. Obviously, some artistic license has been taken here. | |||
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| 13 June 2007 | 17 August 2007 |
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| 04 June 2007 | 04 June 2007 |
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| 19 May 2007 | 02 June 2007 |
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| 03 April 2007 | 17 May 2007 |
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| 11 April 2007 | 12 April 2007 |
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| 05 April 2007 | 07 April 2007 |
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| 27 March 2007 | 02 April 2007
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| 25 March 2007 | 26 March 2007
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| 17 Februari 2007 | 21 Februari 2007 |
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