Dear all -

While the remnants of the Hurricane Ivan moves away, it brings nice
weather here but with a gusty breeze. Venus was imaged so-so with an average seeing
condition. I obtained two best images in UV light and Venus is showing a nice
South Polar Hood that was seen in Christophe Pellier's images a couple of days
before. There is a nice band too near the SPH.

I just wish the seeing was much better!
[Frank J Melillo  Holtsville NY U.S.A]

Hi all,

Finally I'm able to send you my Venus' images captured some days ago.

At beginning I was tremendously sceptical about my result: too many
small details captured, I was even afraid to post them! Ok, seeing was
up to very good, but I never saw anything of similar before...

Then, an image by D. Peach captured at the same time -Sept. 19th-
revealed the same macroscopical features of mine. Take a look at the
comparison attached: the 2 images are similar such as 2 drops!
My image was heavily blurred (3,5 pixel gaussian filter) and rotated to
have the same orientation of Peach's one. UV image by Peach has an
enhanced contrast but this is expected.

That means my image has real macroscopical features, but still I can say
nothing about any small detail visible. I tried tons of different
processing but any final result meets each other.
Nobody is working with my same equipment, so the enigma is getting
harder and harder to solve.

What else can I say? Nothing, I let you study my results.
Thank you.



[Paolo R. Lazzarotti : Massa-City,Italy]

ALPO-Japan Latest Venus Section	2004/09/20
	2004/09/18