Venus transit (geeks only)
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:35 pm
Here's my pic of Venus transiting the sun. Won't see this again until 2117 I believe.
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Re: Venus transit (geeks only)
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:51 pm
Hell Yeah! Nice job! I am doing what I do every day, staring at the sun from a room without a window. We have some heavy rainfall here currently.
Re: Venus transit (geeks only)
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:57 pm
It's like the sun's beauty mark.
If it has been anytime in the last 5 days, there's no way I saw this...all rain around here.
If it has been anytime in the last 5 days, there's no way I saw this...all rain around here.
Re: Venus transit (geeks only)
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:47 am
We were completely clouded in here this morning (Finland). So I rolled over and went back to sleep. Excellent pic though.
Re: Venus transit (geeks only)
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:12 am
Excellent pic. Did you take this through a telescope w/eclipse filter? We just watched unmagnified through the eclipse glasses we used for the annular eclipse a few weeks ago. We could see Venus, but didn't get the sun spots and other detail apparent in your photo.
Re: Venus transit (geeks only)
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:32 pm
Great picture! Thanks for sharing! It's almost like getting a chance to see the very rare 
Re: Venus transit (geeks only)
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 3:42 pm
skibikejunkie wrote:Excellent pic. Did you take this through a telescope w/eclipse filter? We just watched unmagnified through the eclipse glasses we used for the annular eclipse a few weeks ago. We could see Venus, but didn't get the sun spots and other detail apparent in your photo.
I took it with a point and shoot looking through the eyepeice of a 4.5" ETX-125 telescope. The ones I took with a SLR attached, didn't come out anywhere near as good.
Edit: Obviously had a sun filter on it...
Re: Venus transit (geeks only)
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:09 pm