From: Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@mac.com>

Date: February 14, 2009 5:56:52 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] more venus

Hi Alan, great Venus.I understand from what Milton`s saying, a mono camera is best for imaging it? It`s always pretty well obscured by one tree or the other in the west here from my observing position! By the way that passenger plane that came down crashing into a house in Buffalo was nowhere near you I take it? When I heard Buffalo I was thinking of you! Mark.

On 15/02/2009, at 11:43 AM, Alan Friedman wrote:

Hi all,

Here is an image of Venus captured on February 6 using the Baader CaK- 

line filter:

http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/venus_020609.html

This filter isolates an 8nm bandpass centered at 395nm in the near UV. 

Seeing wasn't very good (it rarely is in this part of the spectrum) - 

some subtle cloud structures can be seen.

best,

Alan