Gallery: Venus Transit 2012

[FXM]

Our group had setup under mostly cloudy skies and we had some very small breaks in the clouds. I was able to see the 2004 transit of Venus and feel very lucky to have viewed both.
6" Maksutov-Newtonian Telescope
Baader Solar Filter
Nikon D90
Registax 6
Photoshop CS5

[bystander]

Hinode: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hinode/venus_transit_hinode.html
Credit: JAXA/NASA/Lockheed Martin/Hinode

NASA EO: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78196
NASA Earth Observatory | ISS | SDO

GSFC: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010900/a010996/index.html
NASA / GSFC / SDO

[andrewsteele]

Transit of Venus 2012 from Oxford, UK
andrewsteele.co.uk
Copyright: Andrew Steele

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Our first glimpse of the Transit from Oxford; the clouds parted just before third contact.

[Jennasnap]

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[owbaughman]

I did not have the optics required to take stunning shots of the transit yesterday. I had a great time viewing it through binoculars, and enjoying the crisp, clear afternoon in Reno, NV.

However, the view of the transit as seen from my kitchen was unlike any I've seen yet on this forum.

Cheers,

-Owen Baughman
Reno, NV



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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7239/7346504950_60bc891904_h.jpg

[trdsupragt]

Mine isn't anything special compared to the others around here. I don't have a telescope, nor a fancy dSLR. I just used a pair of eclipse glasses, a Canon point and shoot, along with a 37mm 4x lens that I held in front of the camera to take this photo.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a239/ ... _00082.jpg

trdsupragt.jpg

[Paul Haese]

Venus Transit in Hydrogen Alpha light. 6 June 2012

Copyright: Paul Haese

Click herefor a large resolution image. You really need to click here to see it all.

[grahamphotography]

This was taken through an overexposed radiograph, to filter the sun. This softened the image. Two exposures combined, one for the sun and then one for the windmill/sky.

http://www.heartland-images.com/

[whkinney]

Taken in Hinsdale, Illinois:

kinney.jpg

http://www.eccentricanomaly.org/Transit2012Kinney.png

Will Kinney
Dept. of Physics
Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY

[Lawrence Mok]

Egress (no black drop effect observed):



Taken with 4" Maksutov-Cassegrain scope at Hong Kong

[Lawrence Mok]

Another picture showing Sun Spots and the Venus

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[Lawrence Mok]

All of the venus transit (Hong Kong) pictures I can share and their original size version can be downloaded from here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150835411571680.398048.571771679&type=3&l=b91cbd5b50

Enjoy!

[IanP]

I did not have the optics required to take stunning shots of the transit yesterday. I had a great time viewing it through binoculars, and enjoying the crisp, clear afternoon in Reno, NV.

However, the view of the transit as seen from my kitchen was unlike any I've seen yet on this forum.

Cheers,

-Owen Baughman
Reno, NV



Click for full resolution
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7239/7346504950_60bc891904_h.jpg

Mate, that is the best set of shots so far, well, maybe except for NASA's, but they have the best equipment, don't they?

[Mila]

Transit of Venus photographed in San Francisco

mila.jpg

Here's a full resolution
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8007/7347 ... 01aa_k.jpg

[keerthi kiran]

Clouds played a spoil sport at Bangalore, India. But lot of people waited in long queues for the clouds to clear.
Here is the link to my album.
https://picasaweb.google.com/1140369716 ... directlink


Venus and sun spots on the day of ToV...

No Black drop effect was observed near the 3rd contact...

Do I see Venus's atmosphere?
The rim of Venus seems to be slightly illuminated to me.. Do others see the same?

People standing and waiting for their chance to see the transit through the telescope.

[cosmicwanderer05]

Here is an image of the June 6, 2012 Venus Transit taken a few minutes after the transit maximum from Quezon City, Philippines. We did miss the maximum phase because of cloud cover.

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[owlice]

Copyright: Mojtaba Moghadasi

apod.jpg

Copyright: Danilo Pivato
http://www.danilopivato.com/solar_syste ... 0m44s.html

danilo.jpg

Copyright: P. Tanga and Th. Widemann
http://venustex.oca.eu/

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Copyright: Andreas Möller
http://www.high-iso.de/bilder/astro/ven ... reen_flash

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Copyright: Jens Hackmann
http://www.astrotreff.de/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=136157

JensHackmann.jpg

Copyright: Jared Bowens

Transit Venus 6-5-2012Bowen.jpg

Copyright: Tunç Tezel
http://www.twanight.org

2012Ve0608cTezel1.jpg

2012Ve0611bTezel2.jpg

Copyright: Catalin Fus (http://www.catalinfus.ro) and Catalin Beldea (http://www.astrofoto.ro)

catalins1.jpg

VT in H-alphacatalins2.jpg

[dire]

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http://www.astrojim.net
Date/Location June 5, 2012 KEASA Observtory, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii
Camera and Settings Canon 600D
Telescope Celestron 11-inch f/10 Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope
Mount CGE Pro German Equitorial
Exposure 1/60 s
Image by James R. Dire (University of Hawaii-Kauai Community College) and Robert Byer (Standford University)

[dire]

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http://www.astrojim.net
Date/Location June 5, 2012 KEASA Observtory, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii
Camera and Settings Canon 600D
Telescope Celestron 11-inch f/10 Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope
Mount CGE Pro German Equitorial
Exposure 1/60 s
Processing Adobe Photoshop CS5
Other Sun was low and behind a tree at the time of 3rd contact!
Image by James R. Dire (University of Hawaii-Kauai Community College) and Robert Byer (Standford University)

[dire]

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http://www.astrojim.net
Date/Location June 5, 2012 KEASA Observtory, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii
Camera and Settings Canon 30D
Telescope Bushnell 4000 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (4 inch f/10)
Mount Built-in folk mounted equitorial on field tripod
Exposure 1/60 s
Processing Adobe Photoshop CS5
Other Third Contact - Black Drop Forming, Third contact not seen on US Mainland!
Image by James R. Dire (University of Hawaii-Kauai Community College) and Bruce Heckman

[zAmboni]

Was overcast, right up until the time of the transit, although I had a bunch of mostly cloud free pics, I kind of like the ones with clouds a bit better.
Copyright: Fred Locklear

[Jure Atanackov]

Overcast here for the transit, most unfortunately. But we caught Venus approaching the transit at T-11h24m at 44' from the Sun's limb. The Sun is to the upper right as indicated by the brightness of the planet and the brightness gradient of the field. Both cusps of the slender cresents have merged into a continuous circle. Some variations of surface brightness of the ring are visible, quite possibly detail in the atmosphere. A 25-cm f/6.3 Newtonian (Orion Optics UK SPX250) was used with a Basler Ace ac640-100gm camera and an Astrodon UV filter. The telescope was fitted with a 10-cm off-axis baffle and additional baffling to prevent direct sunlight from entering the focal plane. Image credit: Rok Pucer, Matic Smrekar, Jure Atanackov / ADL.



Clear skies!
Jure
ADL
http://www.adl.si

[Malcolm Townsend]

Astronomical Society of South Australia Event
I explored a few improvisational alternatives for getting an image and luckily this glimpse-through-cloud and mirror-image reflection on the Adelaide Festival Centre glass captured the moment for me!

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https://plus.google.com/photos/10606769 ... 7807742178

[Tamas Abraham]

Transit of Venus
http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/
Copyright: Tamas Abraham

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More images about the transit: http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/naprend/201 ... 20606.html
A little animation about the outward-moving of Venus: http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/anim/venustransit.html

[owlice]