Venus coordinated campaign
This wiki is provided as a tool to share information and schedules for the 2010-2011 coordinated ground-based campaign of Venus. Please feel free to complete and modify the attached table according to the campaign progress and your proposed observations. - TW
What's New ?
October 2011 - Includes DPS/EPSC Oct. 6 meeting minutes, a new area for DPS/EPSC virtual poster session, and a new section for the 2012 transit of Venus - T.W.
June 2011 - Added files 2010_Campaign_5.pdf and .jpg. Now includes coordination summary up to June-July 2011. - T.W.
June 2011 - now includes planning overview poster for Jan 2012 - April 2013. - C.W.
Nov. 21, 2010 - Scheduled ground-based observations updated. Includes MTP 63-64 planned campaign 25 Feb – 15 March 2011. - T.W.
Circumstances of the Venus coordinated campaign
Scheduled ground-based observations
- Ground-based campaign, Jul. 2010 - Jan. 2012,
- Editable Google spreadsheet for detailed observing circumstances
- 2010 | Detailed observing circumstances (Editable Google spreadsheet)
- Circumstances of Venus observation from Earth, 2010-2014
HST observations
- Venus observing by HST
VEx - ground-based coordination files
- VEx science operations, Jul. 2010 - Jan. 2012, VSOC team :
- VEx science operations, Jan. 2012 - April 2013, VSOC team :
- SOIR Files:
This file lists all SOIR observations made from the beginning of Venus operations (April 2006) until September 2010.
For further details, contact the SOIR Principal Investigator: Ann-Carine Vandaele <A-C.Vandaele@aeronomie.be>
These files describe SOIR solar occultation opportunities in the period 30/7/2010 - 25/8/2011 and 1/1/2012-31/12/2012 respectively. SOIR occultations allow measurement of gas abundances and temperatures in the 80-150 km altitude region.
For further details, contact SOIR Principal Investigator: Ann-Carine Vandaele <A-C.Vandaele@aeronomie.be>.
- VeRa Files:
This file descibes all VeRa radio occultations carried out in the period 1/7/2006 - 2/6/2010.
For further information contact the VeRa team: Martin Paetzold <Martin.Paetzold@uni-koeln.de>, Bernd Hauesler <Bernd.Haeusler@unibw.de>, and Silvia Tellmann <tellmann@geo.uni-koeln.de>
This file describes the future opportunities for Radio occultations in the upcoming occultation seasons in January 2011 - January 2012. File kindly provided by Stefan Remus, ESAC.
For further information contact the VeRa team: Martin Paetzold <Martin.Paetzold@uni-koeln.de>, Bernd Hauesler <Bernd.Haeusler@unibw.de>, and Silvia Tellmann <tellmann@geo.uni-koeln.de>.
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 (editable Google map)
<googlemap version="0.9" lat="5.266008" lon="81.5625" type="terrain" zoom="2" controls="large"> http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/venus-atm/2010venus.kml </googlemap>
Detailed instrumental caracteristics
Ground-based telescopes involved and their instrumentation
- Sunspot Astronomy & Visitor Center
- Observatorio SOAR
- Observatoire du Pic du Midi de Bigorre
- Osservatorio Astronomico della Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta
- South African Astronomical Observatory
- Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
- Hanle Observatory
- 4 TAOS robotic
- Naroyo Observatory
- Naroyo 1.6-m
- Siding Spring Observatory
- 1 m McLellan
- MOA 1.8-m
- 0.6-m Optical Craftsmen
- 0.6-m Boller & Chivens
- Mauna Kea Observatory
- Haleakala Observatory
- THIS Tuneable Heterodyne Infrared Spectrometer
used at the:
- - McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope on Kitt Peak in Arizona
- - IRTF on Mauna Kea Hawaii
- HIPWAC Heterodyne Instrument for Planetary Wind And Composition at IRTF
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
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
Transit of Venus, June 5-6 2012
Coordination meetings / meeting sessions
- First JSPS/PHC Sakura meeting on coordinated observations in support to VEx and Akatsuki, ISAS, Sagamihara Campus, February 23-25, 2010.
- 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
- 2010 CFHT Users Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, November 16-18, 2010
- Second JSPS/PHC Sakura meeting on coordinated observations in support to VEx and Akatsuki, University of Tokyo, Space science building, December 3, 2010.
Other links
(Between 23 May and 9 June 2007)
The Venus ground-based image Active Archive (VAA) allows you to upload and retrieve ground-based Venus observations obtained in infrared, visual or ultraviolet light. The aim of this archive is to complement the Venus Express (VEX) spacecraft observations of Venus with worldwide ground-based images to allow for continuous monitoring of the planet.
