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Venus Image 2020/01/03(UT)
阿久津富夫
Paul G. Abel,Anthony Wesley,Luigi Morrone
T.Akutsu,P.Abel,Anthony.W,L.Morrone

Tomio Akutsu

≪茨城県 : 阿久津富夫≫

Paul G. Abel
The seeing was fairly good at times (although predominantly AIII-IV),but during the stable moments,some subtle features were seen.
The southern cusp collar continues to be the darkest feature on the disk.  Also present:
- Bright Limb Band: Visible and complete (dazzling at times)- bright patch visible on the limb just north of the equator?
- Terminator: Geometrically regular
- Cusp Caps: southern cusp cap seen,still no real sign of the northern cusp.
- Cusp collars: only the southern one present,and quite dark.
I had hoped to attempt filter work,but the clouds came up at 1615UT putting a stop to observations.

[Paul G. Abel:Leicester:United Kingdom]

Anthony Wesley
here are images of Venus from last evening through both UV (325-375nm) and IR (1000-1020nm) filters.
I'm using eyepiece projection for the approx 5.5x focal length extension with a Kokusai Kohki Circle-T 12.5mm Abbe orthoscopic eyepiece.
This is giving me approximately 2x the UV signal compared to my previous arrangement that used a Televue 5x Powermate.
 
[Anthony Wesley,Murrumbateman Australia]
≪アンソニ  オーストラリア≫

Luigi Morrone

[Luigi Morrone : City Agerola Italy]

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