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.
Table
A list of proposed and actual observations : pre-conjunction (July 2010-Oct. 29, 2010), post conjunction (Oct. 29, 2010 - Feb. 2011)
Map of observatory sites and telescopes
Sites and telescopes used for ground-based observations, with a link to their instruments.
Ground-based instruments
Venus Express instruments
400px|thumb|right|Instrumentation of Venus Express, Credit: ESA
- 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
Akatsuki successfully launched at 6:58:22 a.m. on May 21 (Japan Standard Time) !
More about VCO/Akatsuki mission
350px|thumb|right|Instrumentation of Akatsuki, Credit: JAXA
- IR1: 1-micron Camera
1.01µm cloud (day-night), surface (nightside)
- IR2: 2-micron Camera
1.73, 2.26, 2.32 (near-IR) 2.02 (CO2), 1.65µm
- UVI: Ultraviolet Imager
283, 365 nm SO2 - UV absorber (dayside)
- LIR: Longwave Infrared Camera
10 µm cloud top (day/nightside)
- LAC: Lightning and Airglow Camera
Filters 777, 557, 553, 558, 630 nm O2/O airglow (night) lightning (night)
More about the Akatsuki Instruments
