Venus atmosphere

On the left 13 stacked frames.
On the right one instant choosen frame. I think this is a Venus atmosphere refraction seeing as a light-grey limb on the left of the planetary disk. TMB-175, Parallax HD-200, SONY DCR-VX 2000, Scopetronics stuff.
Actually this is the way it was discovered (Venus atmosphere) - by observing during a transit long time ago.

P.S I want to thank everyone! Image is dedicated to all people around here.
And I forgot to mention that both images was not processed at any way. Left image just stacked using Registax but no waivelet or any other processing. Just cropped and combined in Photoshop. Levels etc. was not altered. You see clearly Earth atmosphere diffraction. Original size.

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That's absolutely amazing!
GY

Russ,

Amazing! image

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Thanks Russ

This is as I saw Venus through an older Meade 6" f5 reflector with a 9mm EP and thousand oaks 60mm off axis visual filter in NH. Though I saw the atmospheric refraction and suspected that to be the effect, I considered the mind's ability to fill in detail as a posibility. Your photo confirms what I saw. Thanks for sharing.

Marc

Hi, Russ!

Heh, this is TRUE 3D RESULT!

Thank you for your efforts - and Resultative efforts!

Arkady

Fantastic capture!

congratulations,
Alan

Most excellent work! Very impressive.
Thanks for sharing.

Simply amazing image Russ.

Derrick.

Very nice images Russ.
Congrats!
Nico

Russ,

Thank you for sharing your outstanding images of the transit of Venus. You have captured third contact perfectly as well as the Venusian aureole (atmosphere). I am glad that you and Gus had a fun observation of the transit.

By the way this extensive atmosphere was first discovered by the famous Russian astronomer Losmonov in 1761 during the transit occuring in that year. An excellent article on Venus can be found at http://carnap.umd.edu/phil250/venus_alive_pdf/Chapter2/CH2-0.pdf

Carlos