Comments on: Something You Never See: Venus in Natural Light http://wanderingspace.net/2009/04/something-you-never-see-venus-in-natural-light/ Imaging the bodies of our Solar Sysytem Mon, 21 May 2012 22:15:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Gordan http://wanderingspace.net/2009/04/something-you-never-see-venus-in-natural-light/#comment-4845 Gordan Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:40:56 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=1029#comment-4845 BTW, here's an old enhancement I did a while back, showing that image as a difference between the violet and one of the more bland filters: http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n15/ugordan/F-C.jpg BTW, here’s an old enhancement I did a while back, showing that image as a difference between the violet and one of the more bland filters:

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n15/ugordan/F-C.jpg

]]> By: Gordan http://wanderingspace.net/2009/04/something-you-never-see-venus-in-natural-light/#comment-4844 Gordan Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:02:58 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=1029#comment-4844 This is calibrated color using actual red, green and blue filters. If you were to enhance the contrast you'd see there are white-yellow cloud patterns. The problem with pretty much all images of Venus released so far is that they've been enhanced/false color or just colorizations of ultraviolet frames. It's only once you go to (ultra)violet wavelengths that any cloud bands become readily visible. Human eye just doesn't cut it here. This is calibrated color using actual red, green and blue filters. If you were to enhance the contrast you’d see there are white-yellow cloud patterns. The problem with pretty much all images of Venus released so far is that they’ve been enhanced/false color or just colorizations of ultraviolet frames. It’s only once you go to (ultra)violet wavelengths that any cloud bands become readily visible. Human eye just doesn’t cut it here.

]]> By: Lucius http://wanderingspace.net/2009/04/something-you-never-see-venus-in-natural-light/#comment-4842 Lucius Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:39:26 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=1029#comment-4842 Is this the real color(s) of Venus? I always thought it had white and yellow clouds... As well, it's very fascinating: like Botticelli's "Birth of Venus", she stays onto a shell, and the planet is like a pearl... Wonderful! Is this the real color(s) of Venus? I always thought it had white and yellow clouds… As well, it’s very fascinating: like Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”, she stays onto a shell, and the planet is like a pearl… Wonderful!

]]> By: Gordan http://wanderingspace.net/2009/04/something-you-never-see-venus-in-natural-light/#comment-4838 Gordan Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:06:30 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=1029#comment-4838 My thoughts exactly. I especially find the planet's limb to look somehow unnatural - there's no limb brightening and bluish hue due to Rayleigh scattering as visible on Jupiter, Saturn, Earth etc. atmospheres. It's just white, plain and simple. And this is not even a gamma-corrected version! My thoughts exactly. I especially find the planet’s limb to look somehow unnatural - there’s no limb brightening and bluish hue due to Rayleigh scattering as visible on Jupiter, Saturn, Earth etc. atmospheres. It’s just white, plain and simple.

And this is not even a gamma-corrected version!

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