Venus
North is up in these images
In 2007
Venus on 7-02-07 at 22:54 UT
32.2 arcseconds in diameter
Imaged with an Imaging Source DMK21AF04.AS video camera and a Schuler UV filter through a Celestron C11 @ f/17.
Venus doesn't usually show any cloud features in visible light, but these features can be recorded in the near ultraviolet with the proper filter and a camera sensitive to that wavelength.
Venus on 5-23-07 at 22:54 UT
19.9 arcseconds in diameter
Imaged with an Imaging Source DMK21AF04.AS video camera through a Celestron C11 @ f/15.
This is a false color image composed of 2 separate images, one taken with a Schuler UV filter and the other with an Edmund 780nm near-IR pass filter. Both filters, especially the UV, are capable of revealing cloud features to the camera's CCD.
2004 Images
Venus appears here as a very thin crescent less than 4 full days before it's transit of the Sun on 6-8-04
Image taken on 6-4-04 at 1:21pm EDT (17:21 UT on 6-4-04)
Imaged with a Philips ToUcam 740 webcam @ f/10 through an 11" Celestron SCT using an Edmund Optics 780nm Near-IR pass filter
For an image of Venus in transit of the Sun on the morning of June 8, 2004 click here
...and in color 8 days later
Venus on 6-12-04 at 3:30pm EDT (19:30 UT on 6-12-04)
Venus appears here as a very thin crescent 4 full days after it's transit of the Sun on 6-8-04. This color version closely matches the actual daylight visual appearance in the telescope
Imaged with a Philips ToUcam 740 webcam @ f/17 through a TEC140 APO refractor
This is an (N-IR)RGB image composed of a 3 minute video using an Edmund Optics 780nm IR pass filter for the Near-IR channel, and another 3 minute video with a Baader Planetarium IR/UV block filter for the RGB