The atmosphere of Venus is dense and is composed nearly entirely of carbon dioxide. Using a small telescope and spectrograph located at the NSO Tucson headquarters an attempt will be made to detect the Venus atmosphere and to measure its velocity. This is stimulated by current efforts to measure the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars.
Is anyone going to try to make some measurements?
Venus Transit and Spectroscopy!
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Re: Venus Transit and Spectroscopy!
Sounds very interesting.
One problem could be that the CO2 bands are well out in the infra red - 2.7 and 4.3 micron.
Issues of Camera sensitivity and suitable filtering come to mind.....
One problem could be that the CO2 bands are well out in the infra red - 2.7 and 4.3 micron.
Issues of Camera sensitivity and suitable filtering come to mind.....
"Astronomical Spectroscopy - The Final Frontier" - to boldly go where few amateurs have gone before
https://groups.io/g/astronomicalspectroscopy
http://astronomicalspectroscopy.com
"Astronomical Spectroscopy for Amateurs" and
"Imaging Sunlight - using a digital spectroheliograph" - Springer
https://groups.io/g/astronomicalspectroscopy
http://astronomicalspectroscopy.com
"Astronomical Spectroscopy for Amateurs" and
"Imaging Sunlight - using a digital spectroheliograph" - Springer