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Photographer:

Luigi Morrone

Location of Photo:

Agerola Italy

Date/Time of photo:

17/07/2024

Equipment:

Setup:C14 Edge HD, Fornax52 mount, QHY5III200M V2,FFC Badder, Baader Sloan z-s' 820-920nm,ADC Pierro Astro MK3

Description:

Venus July 17th 2024 The cloud discontinuity is a recurrent large-scale wave observed to propagate during decades at the deeper clouds of Venus (47–56 km above the surface) and observable on near infrared wavelengths from 700-900 nm. The feature was first identify on Venus observations acquired by the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft. The feature circulates around the atmosphere with a period of about 5 days and has been observed once over more than 100 days in succesive rotations of the planets.

Website:

https://www.astrobin.com/full/cz89ox/0/