Gallery: Venus Transit 2012

[I3ooI3oo]

faron.jpg

http://www.I3ooI3oo.com/images/venus_transit.JPG

The clouds were not being very helpful.
Taken from the pier in Clearwater, Florida
Copyright: Robert Faron

[ChrisKotsiopoulos]

Venus transiting the Sun. The shot was taken at Kos island, Greece. The weather conditions almost ruined my chance to capture this rare astronomical event. After a battle against time and the cloudy sky I was fortunate to take some pictures!
http://www.greeksky.gr/files/photos/sun/20120606SunVenus07.htm
http://www.greeksky.gr/files/photos/sun/20120606SunVenus02.htm

[arun289]

Venus calling Sun and Earth
you can find Venus between the two cellphone towers
http://wondroussky.blogspot.in/
Copyright: Arun Venkataswamy

Click to view full size image

[Florian Kainz]

Venus before and during its transit in front of the Sun


Venus before and during transit by fksr, on Flickr

Venus a few minutes after sunset on May 31st, 2012, six days before its transit in front of the sun, and during the transit on June 5th. The two photos are at the same scale, and Venus is approximately at the same place in the frame. In the days before the transit, the Venus crescent was already very narrow, and no longer visible to the naked eye, at least for me.

The left image was shot in San Rafael, California, and the right one in San Francisco.

[Martin Mernier]

Venus transit
http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobernier
Copyright: Martin Bernier

Click to view full size image

Full: http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobernier/t ... _20h33.jpg

Taken at sun rise in St-Simon, Québec ( Canada ) with a 400 mm lens+ barlow 2x

Thanks for looking

[asm]

Moscow region had bad weather.
4 hours of hope and waiting, and only 5-10 seconds with view like this:

[Kuffner]

The Venus Transit on the Heliometer of the Kuffner Observatory in Vienna, Austria. Heliometer measurements of the Venus transits in 1761 and 1769 made significant contributions to the determination of the astronomical unit.



The particular instrument was built in 1891 and is the largest Heliometer worldwide. It was originally used for measuring parallaxes of stars. The divided front lens allows for an accurate determination of angular distances on the sky by measuring its according displacement.



More images can be found on http://venustransit.kuffner-sternwarte.at/venustransit_bilder.html

[Sourena]

Venus Transit 6 June 2012
Tehran - @ 6:17 AM
Canon EOS 550d - EF-S 55-250 telephoto lens (@250 mm) - f32 - 1/4000 s - ISO 100

number 1:

Click to view full size image

number 2:

Click to view full size image

[templec]

Venus Transit - June 5, 2012
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/Astrophotog ... 898_qTjb72
Copyright: 2012 Craig & Tammy Temple

Click to view full size image

Venus Transit Intervals - June 5, 2012
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/Astrophotog ... 898_qTjb72
Copyright: 2012 Craig & Tammy Temple

Click to view full size image

[templec]

Venus Transit - June 5, 2012
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/Astrophotog ... 898_qTjb72
Copyright: 2012 Craig & Tammy Temple

[atxdb2]

Here's my contribution.

Taken in Austin, Texas right before sunset. Initially thought that clouds would obscure the sunset, but at the last minute, the sun peeked out below the clouds and I got some nice images of the transit. Taken with my Canon T2i, 250mm lens (cropped), no filters, hand-held:

Click to view full size image

The rest of the series and exif info can be seen in my Picasa album:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1010212968 ... redirect=1

[Petr Horalek]

Venus transit and green flashing

http://www.astro.cz/_data/images/news/2 ... 2000px.jpg

When I was waiting for the last Venus transit for next century, I didn't expect I am witnessed by another special and anusual phenomenon - green flash. The specific conditions brought several green flashes during Sun and Venus rising. Spectacular and really such unusual! Used Canon 550D, MTO 1000/10 mm.

[Thierry Legault]

Why only one transit when one can have two? Here is my transit of the Hubble Space Telescope in the middle of the transit of Venus, taken from Australia (Queensland)

thierry.jpg

http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/transit_ven ... _marks.jpg

Click to view full size image

More info on this page: http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/venus_hst_transit.html

[owlice]

Copyright: Alp Akoglu

venus_transit_alp_akoglu1.jpg

Copyright: Michael Kaufman

CompositeVenus.jpg

Copyright: Atish Aman

venus-transit-chittorgarh.jpg

Copyright: Austin Kurtz

AKurtz_VenusTransit_20120605_4628_Composite.jpg

Copyright: Adam Block
http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/so ... venus_2012

Click to view full size image

Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi
http://www.astrophoto.hu

venustransit_20120606_ladanyi_web.jpg

[behyar]

Venus Transit 2012 at the Greatest point
http://www.deepskyobjects.com/
Copyright: Behyar Bakhshandeh

Click to view full size image

[behyar]

Venus Transit Close Up
http://www.deepskyobjects.com/
Copyright: Behyar Bakhshandeh

Click to view full size image

[ki_cz]

Green flash with Venus in transit immediately after sunrise

Click to view full size image

Venus and sun rising behind the St. Katherine's Church in Prague (using 2x teleconverter, 2000mm equivalent)

Click to view full size image

Venus and sun after sunrise (using 2x teleconverter, 2000mm equivalent)

Click to view full size image

Venus and sun behind one of the spires on the Vysehrad church in Prague (using 2x teleconverter, 2000mm equivalent)

Click to view full size image

[pcully]

I finally got my video of the Transit of Venus together. I used two telescopes and two cameras to capture time-lapse sequences of this magnificent astronomical event of 2012. I hope you enjoy it. I had a whole lot of fun planning and executing this shoot.

[Petr H.]

Venus transit and green flashing

http://www.astro.cz/_data/images/news/2 ... 2000px.jpg

When I was waiting for the last Venus transit for next century, I didn't expect I am witnessed by another special and anusual phenomenon - green flash. The specific conditions brought several green flashes during Sun and Venus rising. Spectacular and really such unusual! Used Canon 550D, MTO 1000/10 mm.

Click to view full size image

[owlice]

Copyright: Lluis Romero

Transit_Venus_Castell-de-Blanes_06-06-2012-6-45-12_am_max.jpg

Copyright: Colin Haig

HaigVenusJet.JPG

Copyright: Alex Conu

tov_2012_conu.jpg

Copyright: Stephan Heinsius

B005-131 Doubled Venus 1.jpg

Copyright: Murali Krishna Kanagala

plane.jpg

Copyright: John Reed

_MG_3105-frame.jpg

Copyright: Chris Cook
http://www.cookphoto.com

2004-2012 transits-chriscook-sw.jpg

Copyright: Robert Pitt
http://unix.eng.ua.edu/~rpitt

venus and plane.jpg

Copyright: Mike Sidonio and David Hough
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... 3/original

SidonioHough.jpg

Copyright: Ed Vazhorov
http://vazhorov.wordpress.com/

venus_transit_green-ray.jpg

Copyright: Rudolf Dobesberger

IMG_4243s.jpg

[drsahoo]

Click to view full size image

[Chateau13]

Venus transit observation from Marseille (France) early in the morning the 6 th june at 6H15 (local time),
sun at about 3.5degrees above the horizon.
Telescope aperture 80mm (3.2") focal lenght 500mm plus converter X1.4 for equivalent focal lenght 700mm,
equipped with a Kodak gelatine neutral densit ND3 and Nikon D7000.
Copyright : Alain Origné

Click to view full size image

http://www.flickr.com/photos/75218913@N03/7344513652/

[Martin Bernier]

Venus transit
http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobernier
Copyright: Martin Bernier

Click to view full size image

Full: http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobernier/t ... _5juin12_1

Thanks for looking

[drsahoo]

Copyright: Astronomy Club, IIT Kanpur

This picture was taken from IIT Kanpur at sunrise using Sky-watcher.

[Zerjillo]

This image captures the exact moment when Venus touches the Sun limbo in its last transit through the Sun (June 6th, 2012).

Please take into account that this image was captured using a small and cheap telescope (Skywatcher ED 80), a 4x Barlow Lens, a color video CCD (IMG-132E) and a Baader solar film filter. Details of the Sun surface are clearly visible.

To get this image we had to fly almost 3000 kms, travel around 500km by car and fight against bad weather in Norway and Sweden.

We are processing many more takes to make big mosaics of the Sun in h-alpha and a small animation of Venus getting out of the Sun. We will post our results in the following days.

Zerjillo & Antonio (zerjioi AT ugr.es, La Azotea)



Venus touches the Sun Limbo - Click to enlarge (1200x900)