Congratulations on the excellent images!
I did some research on your images, including extracting the single Venus image, enlarging it 4X and placing it on a black background. This clearly shows the "bulge" that Lomonosov referred to in his obeservations. It is this "bulge" that led him to conclude that Venus had an athmosphere. I hope you don't mind that I have posted the enlarged image below.
Here's Lomonosov's account of the event:
"On Venus leaving the Sun’s disc, when its leading edge started to get near to the edge of the Sun and was to the naked eye about a tenth of the diameter of Venus away, there appeared on the edge of the Sun a bulge which showed itself more clearly the nearer Venus got to exit [...]
Complete exit, or the final contact of the trailing edge of Venus with the Sun, was also attended by a certain indentation and a blurring of the Sun’s edge. On making this observation Councillor Lomonosov concluded that the planet Venus was surrounded by a considerable airy atmosphere of the same nature (if not bigger) than that which envelops our earth since the loss of clarity on the well-defined edge of the Sun just before the arrival of Venus itself upon the Sun’s surface signifies the arrival of the Venusian atmosphere onto the edge of the Sun. [...] As Venus was exiting, the touching of its leading edge produced a bulge. These things show nothing other than the refraction of rays of light in the atmosphere of Venus."
Then complete text can be found here:
http://www.jacobite.org.uk/ellis/planets.pdf
Again, congratulations on the great shots.
Best,
Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida
I did some research on your images, including extracting the single Venus image, enlarging it 4X and placing it on a black background. This clearly shows the "bulge" that Lomonosov referred to in his obeservations. It is this "bulge" that led him to conclude that Venus had an athmosphere. I hope you don't mind that I have posted the enlarged image below.
Here's Lomonosov's account of the event:
"On Venus leaving the Sun’s disc, when its leading edge started to get near to the edge of the Sun and was to the naked eye about a tenth of the diameter of Venus away, there appeared on the edge of the Sun a bulge which showed itself more clearly the nearer Venus got to exit [...]
Complete exit, or the final contact of the trailing edge of Venus with the Sun, was also attended by a certain indentation and a blurring of the Sun’s edge. On making this observation Councillor Lomonosov concluded that the planet Venus was surrounded by a considerable airy atmosphere of the same nature (if not bigger) than that which envelops our earth since the loss of clarity on the well-defined edge of the Sun just before the arrival of Venus itself upon the Sun’s surface signifies the arrival of the Venusian atmosphere onto the edge of the Sun. [...] As Venus was exiting, the touching of its leading edge produced a bulge. These things show nothing other than the refraction of rays of light in the atmosphere of Venus."
Then complete text can be found here:
http://www.jacobite.org.uk/ellis/planets.pdf
Again, congratulations on the great shots.
Best,
Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida
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