by NoelC » Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:50 pm
Genuine Fractals is a neat product.
Regarding Venus, I took a set of high magnification images of Venus a while back through my telescope when Venus was visible in the evening. The atmosphere was moving around quite a bit as the heat of the day was still quite present. To show the extent of the atmospheric distortion I created an animation from them.
Also, as it was fairly low in the sky, the atmosphere acted like a prism, dispersing the colors of the light as a spectrum. Venus is actually pretty much white.
Note that the above image is rotated 180 degrees. The sun was really below and to the right of the planet. I really need to shoot it again, early in the morning as Mr. Ouellet has.
-Noel
Genuine Fractals is a neat product.
Regarding Venus, I took a set of high magnification images of Venus a while back through my telescope when Venus was visible in the evening. The atmosphere was moving around quite a bit as the heat of the day was still quite present. To show the extent of the atmospheric distortion I created an animation from them.
Also, as it was fairly low in the sky, the atmosphere acted like a prism, dispersing the colors of the light as a spectrum. Venus is actually pretty much white.
[img]http://ccarboni.home.att.net/Venus_Animation.gif[/img]
Note that the above image is rotated 180 degrees. The sun was really below and to the right of the planet. I really need to shoot it again, early in the morning as Mr. Ouellet has.
-Noel