Rainbow Venus

I saw an interesting report on http://www.spaceweather.com/ this morning
showing how atmospheric optics have turned a crescent venus into a pretty
rainbow.

-Mike

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:14:44 -0000, "TerminalVelocity"
mike(underscore)j(underscore)rubin(at)yahoo.co.uk wrote:

I saw an interesting report on http://www.spaceweather.com/ this morning
showing how atmospheric optics have turned a crescent venus into a pretty
rainbow.

An effect that many planetary observers strive to eliminate ;-)
--
Pete
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk

I saw an interesting report on http://www.spaceweather.com/ this morning
showing how atmospheric optics have turned a crescent venus into a pretty
rainbow.

The image is stacked and averages out atmospheric turbulence. Today's
SpaceWeather has a link (halfway down page) to an animation by
Ron Wayman showing the atmospheric dispersion effects _and_ turbulence
near the horizon.


Les Cowley
Atmospheric Optics:
http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/atoptics/phenom.htm

Originally Posted by TerminalVelocity

I saw an interesting report on http://www.spaceweather.com/ this morning
showing how atmospheric optics have turned a crescent venus into a pretty
rainbow.

-Mike

Yes - it's nice and I've captured it too! I think the colourless Venus' are a bit suspicious for my liking;-)

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