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

2010 Venus Coordination 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.

• 2010 Venus Coordinated Campaign, Telescopes sites

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

Keck 10-m

CFHT 3.6-m

SUBARU

JCMT

• Haleakala Observatory

AEOS

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

Ground-based 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