Venus clouds in UV, 8th March 2020

[lukebl]

I captured some cloud patterns on Venus this evening, despite the usual poor seeing. I have noticed that seeing seems to be better about an hour before sunset than after, but tonight the clouds didn't clear till later.

Venus is starting to get noticeably bigger. Tonight its diameter was 20.2", whereas in this earlier image from three weeks ago it was 17"

Captured with Baader U-Venus and IR filters, c. 20,000 frames for each channel. 24ms exposures @ c. 40fps. Green channel made from 50% UV and 50% IR . 3x Televue Barlow, Omegon RC8 (effective focal length 4800) and a ZWO ASI 290MM Mini Mono camera.

[Davey-T]

I noticed it was looking very bright earlier.

Dave

[CraigT82]

The 8th March image is an absolute stormer! Dont see many planetary images from RCs but yours seems to be really singing 👌

[Pete Presland]

Very nice Luke, plenty of detail visible there.