Venus coordinated campaign

This wiki is provided as a tool to share information and schedules for the 2010 coordinated ground-based campaign of Venus. Please feel free to complete and modify the attached tables according to the campaign progress and your proposed observations.

Tools of the Venus coordinated campaign

Table

A list of proposed and actual observations : pre-conjunction (July 2010-Oct. 29, 2010), post conjunction (Oct. 29, 2010 - Feb. 2011)

• 2010 Venus Coordination table

Map of observatory sites and telescopes

Sites and telescopes used for ground-based observations, with a link to their instruments.

• 2010 Venus Coordinated Campaign, Telescopes sites

Instrumentation of the study of Venus

Ground-based instruments

• Sunspot Astronomy & Visitor Center

APO 3.5-m

ARCES

• Observatorio SOAR

Soar Telescope

• Observatoire du Pic du Midi de Bigorre

Bernard-Lyot 2-m

• Osservatorio Astronomico della Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta

Telescope?

• South African Astronomical Observatory

Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)

• Hanle Observatory

HCT

• National Central University Lulin Observatory

LOT Cassegrain/ SLT R-C/ 4 TAOS robotic

• Naroyo Observatory

Naroyo 1.6-m

• Siding Spring Observatory

Anglo-Australian 3.9-m

• Mount John University Observatory

1 m McLellan

MOA 1.8-m

0.6-m Optical Craftsmen

0.6-m Boller & Chivens

• Mauna Kea Observatory

IRTF (HIPWAC Heterodyne Instrument for Planetary Wind And Composition)

Keck 10-m

CFHT 3.6-m

SUBARU

JCMT

• Haleakala Observatory

AEOS

• Kitt Peak National Observatory

McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope

• THIS Tuneable Heterodyne Infrared Spectrometer

Venus Express instruments

• SPICAV/SOIR : Ultraviolet and Infrared Atmospheric Spectrometer

Atmospheric spectrometry by star or Sun occultation

UV 0.11 - 0.3 µm R ~ 300

IR 0.7 - 1.7 µm R ~ 1300

SOIR 2.3 - 4.2 µm R ~ 15000

• VeRa : Venus Radio Science Experiment

Radio sounding of atmosphere

• VIRTIS : Ultraviolet/Visible/Near-Infrared mapping spectrometer

Spectrographic mapping of atmosphere and surface

- VIRTIS-M mapping spectrometer

Vis 0.25 - 1.0 µm R ~ 100 - 200 ( IR 1 - 5 µm R ~ 100 - 200 )

- VIRTIS-H High-res

2 - 5 µm R ~ 1000 - 2000

• VMC : Venus Monitoring Camera

Ultraviolet and visible imaging

Filters :

UV 0.365 µm

Vis 0.513 µm

Near - IR1 0.965 µm

Near - IR2 1.010 µm

More about the Venus Express Instruments

Akatsuki instruments

Visit the Akatsuki Website

Akatsuki successfully launched at 6:58:22 a.m. on May 21 (Japan Standard Time) !

More about VCO/Akatsuki mission

• IR1 : 1-micron Camera

Low stratus, vapor, active volcanism

1.01 µm cloud (day-night), surface (nightside)

• IR2 : 2-micron Camera

Low stratus, trace gasses, zodiacal light

1.73, 2.26, 2.32 (near-IR) 2.02 (CO2), 1.65 µm

• UVI : Ultraviolet Imager

Cloud-top ultraviolet absorber, SO2

283, 365 nm SO2 - UV absorber (dayside)

• LIR : Longwave Infrared Camera

Cloud-top temperature distribution

10 µm cloud top (day/nightside)

• LAC : Lightning and Airglow Camera

Lightening flash, high-stratus airglow emission

Filters 777, 557, 553, 558, 630 nm O2/O airglow (night) lightning (night)

More about the Akatsuki Instruments

Coordination meetings / meeting sessions

• Venus Conference, Aussois (France), 20-26 June 2010
• « After-Aussois Venus 2010 » workshop: 1st strategic workshop on Coordinated ground-based measurements and modeling of the Venus atmosphere, Paris, June 28-29, 2010
• 2010 VEXAG International Workshop: Venus, Our Closest Earth-like Planet, Madison (USA), 30 August - 2 September 2010

Other links

• Coordinated Ground-based Venus Observation Campaign
• Venus Ground-Based image Active Archive
• Venus Amateur Observing Project