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SOURCE OF ABOVE IMAGE AND TEXT: mentallandscape.com...
If colors are estimated correctly, there is a final issue of tone mapping. How bright does the image appear to the eye in a given context. The image above is the best color image of Venus I've found, showing the planet as it would likely appear to a human observer in space. It was made by Turkish astronomer A. Tayfun Oner, using the two color channels from the Galileo camera, and a third interpolated channel.
SOURCE OF ABOVE IMAGE AND TEXT: www.celestronimages.com...
Here is Venus in natural (RGB) light. Unlike many beautiful amateur images that combine IR and UV light to create a false color image, I wanted to create a true color image of this beautiful but difficult planet to image.
Shown are an IR-R-G-B composite where IR is used as a luminance and the RGB channels provide the color and saturation, and the true color RGB composite. Each image combines about 2500 of 10000 frames per channel through the individual filters.
The images were taken on the evening of May 22, 2010 shortly before sunset, while Venus was still at a reasonable altitude (around 40-50 degrees) and in very good seeing.
I think the more jaundiced looking images are color enhanced. If you look there is a slightly yellow tinge on these images.
Originally posted by NuminousCosmos
I always thought people understood Venus to be covered in clouds...though I always picture them in my minds eye a slightly jaundice yellow.
I wondered why they chose that color for the surface map images. I have to say though, I'm not sure Venus is really that color on the surface.
Originally posted by NuminousCosmos
Also, the reddish image you posted was made from radar maps of the surface, color coded to roughly match the Soviet Venera probes surface panoramas.
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Actually, it does look as though whole parts of the craft were red. I'd still like to see an Earth shot of the parts that are visible on the panoramic photographs, just to be sure.
Originally posted by NuminousCosmos
Looks reddish to me.
I think there is a lot of background regarding Soviet technology and imaging systems that wouldn't be appropriate for this thread. However, I see no reason to doubt the veracity of what was sent back...only how people interpret the data.
SOURCE: www.uni.edu...
The surface of Venus as seen by the Venera 13 spacecraft. The picture may look a bit distorted, but that's intentional. The top picture shows the actual color of the surface. This orangish tint is due to the cloud cover. The bottom picture has been altered to remove the coloring by the clouds, so this is how Venus would look under normal lighting. Due to the severe conditions on the surface of the planet, a spacecraft may have only one chance to take a picture before it is destroyed, so the lens is shaped in such a way to get as much information as possible. That is why there is such a distorted view, since it not only shows the ground directly below the spacecraft but also how things look in the distance.
The imageshack image numinous posted above has a color chart on it. For a discussion of using the information to try to calibrate see about two thirds of the way down the page below. I can only guess whether it will mean anything to you....
Originally posted by LightSpeedDriver
Do they have a colour chart like they did with the Mars rovers?
Don P. Mitchell: Drilling into the Surface of Venus
Precise color balance of the Venera-13 and 14 images has never been calculated with complete satisfaction, in part because the radiometric response of the camera is uncertain.
Originally posted by Pimander
I think the more jaundiced looking images are color enhanced. If you look there is a slightly yellow tinge on these images.
Originally posted by NuminousCosmos
I always thought people understood Venus to be covered in clouds...though I always picture them in my minds eye a slightly jaundice yellow.
I wondered why they chose that color for the surface map images. I have to say though, I'm not sure Venus is really that color on the surface.
Originally posted by NuminousCosmos
Also, the reddish image you posted was made from radar maps of the surface, color coded to roughly match the Soviet Venera probes surface panoramas.
mentallandscape.com...
In the panorama above, even the parts of the Venera probe look a reddish color. Surely the probe isn't that color. That looks suspiciously like a red filter or the images aren't true color.. It is reminiscent of the Mars images where you can even see a color calibration bar visible in the photograph and it is obvious a red filter has been used.edit on 8/1/12 by Pimander because: (no reason given)edit on 8/1/12 by Pimander because: forgot to mention the pic was Venera
I've been trying to rack my brain (that's the king of guy I am) to understand how the essentially white(ish) clouds make the sky a reddish color on Venus. The only time we get red is at sunrise and sunset on Earth.
Originally posted by juleol
That is because the sunlight scatters differently through the very thick Venusian atmosphere.
SOURCE: www.ntu.ac.uk...
The main telescope is a modified Newtonian (500mm Newise). The telescope consists of two mirrors. The main mirror (a concave mirror of 0.5m in diameter and 2.25m focal length) collects the light and creates an image. The secondary plane mirror reflects the collected light out of the telescope so that the observer can view the image without standing in front of the telescope. This telescope is 1.3m long and weighs 42kg.
Attached to the main telescope are two further telescopes. The small finder scope is much smaller and is used to view a larger region of the sky than with the main scope. It is fitted with a cross hair to point the main scope in the right direction.
The solar telescope (SV-50 Solarview 50mm) is a refractor or telescope using lenses to collect the light. Its light collecting main lens is 50mm in diameter and has a focal length of 400mm. This optical setup is ideal to observe the Sun. With this scope the Sun is only observed in a very specific colour, called H alpha, which allows us to see certain detail on the Sun's surface. To achieve this a set of filters is included in the telescope.
Originally posted by Pimander
All of which means it makes no sense that the Martian sky would look red! Surely it would be blue.
Now, would the parachute on the probe have worked in the hot, dense Venusian atmosphere? Does anyone know what materials have been used to make parachutes for probes to Venus?
Does anyone know enough about silk to know whether it is suitable for temperatures higher than the melting point of lead?
The parachute would not have stayed at 50km though. It would have got closer and closer to the high temperatures and then melted.
Originally posted by PluPerfect
Perfectly acceptable for parachute material to withstand.