[ATMoB-discuss] Mercury and Venus images

[mmotta at massmed.org]

WOW,
 I am blown away, you captured detail on
Mercury, I have never seen that before!
And cloud detail on Venus!
John, you are King of the planets for
sure, very very impressive!

Mario Motta

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:52:46 -0400, "John
Boudreau" wrote:

> 
> Recently I acquired a new DMK21AF04
> video camera from The Imaging Source:
>
http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/products/
> 
> This camera is capable of up to 60
> frames/second without compression, vs.
> the typical 5 to 10 fps of the ToUcam
> webcams I've been using for years. More
> fps allow more frames to be recorded in
> those fleeting moments of good seeing.
> 
> On May 23rd I had pretty steady seeing
> in the late afternoon, allowing me to
> record Mercury and Venus in my best
> detail of those planets to date. The
> images are at the top section of this
> webpage:
>
http://home.comcast.net/~jeboud/mercury_venus.htm
> 
> Here's a comparison of my Mercury image
> to a simulation from the NASA/JPL Solar
> System Simulator which is based on
> Mariner 10 images. 
>
http://home.comcast.net/~jeboud/IR780_mercury_052307_2341UT_vs_nasa.jpg
> My image is on the left, and the NASA
> image to the right--- the NASA
> simulation been gaussian blurred to
> attempt to match my image's poorer
> resolution, and has also had the
> contrast boosted a bit. A small gray
> swath at the top of the NASA image
> represents a gap in the Mariner 10's
> imagery. A couple of Mercury videos
that
> I've taken on Wednesday afternoon (May
> 30th) appear to also support the
> markings, although I haven't finished
> processing them yet.
> 
> The May 23rd Venus image is a false
> color result of two separate videos
> recorded with a Schuler UV filter and
an
> Edmund 780nm near-IR pass filter. I
also
> have some more Venus recordings from
> Wednesday afternoon/early evening which
> I hope to work on over the next few
days.
> 
> 
> ---John Boudreau
> 
>
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