Captured under excellent seeing and transparency from Agerola on Italy’s Amalfi Coast, this composition reveals Venus through three distinct filters, each emphasizing different layers of the planet’s atmosphere. Subtle structures in the middle-altitude cloud decks become visible, shaped by complex winds and photochemical processes in the planet’s dense, reflective atmosphere.

Using a Celestron C14 Edge HD telescope on a Fornax 52 mount, Player One Uranus-M camera with a Baader FFC and Sloan z′ (820–920 nm) filter to record fine near-infrared detail. These stacked views together highlight how multispectral imaging can uncover features invisible to the eye, offering a rare glimpse into Venus’s dynamic cloud systems.