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APOD: A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea (2012 Jun 13)

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:07 am
by APOD Robot
Image A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea

Explanation: Waiting years and traveling kilometers -- all to get a shot like this. And even with all of this planning, a good bit of luck was helpful. As the Sun rose over the Baltic Sea last Wednesday as seen from Fehmarn Island in northern Germany, photographer Jens Hackmann was ready for the very unusual black dot of Venus to appear superimposed. Less expected were the textures of clouds and haze that would tint different levels of the Sun various shades of red. And possibly the luckiest gift of all was a flicker of a rare green flash at the very top of the Sun. The above image is, of course, just one of many spectacular pictures taken last week of the last transit of the planet Venus across the face of the Sun for the next 105 years.

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Re: APOD: A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea (2012 Jun 13)

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:34 am
by ta152h0
I was so curious i just had to google this and guess what, not so long ago

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120527.html

Re: APOD: A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea (2012 Jun 13)

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:42 am
by slyman
venus transit is so last week

Re: APOD: A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea (2012 Jun 13)

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:29 am
by Beyond
I'll take a dozen of the -less expected-. It's really amazing how the same event can look so different depending on just where you take a picture of it from. From space, the circles are circles, but different filters give it a whole new look. From the earth, depending on atmospheric conditions and the position of the rising sun in it's ascent and what it is behind at the moment, gives a myriad of different looks of the same event, even to venus being out-of-shape. I would imagine there would be more than enough different looks of the event to make up a 52 picture deck of cards to celebrate the last venus transit of the century.
Perhaps even enough to make up two decks of pictures. One for sunrise and one for sunset.

Re: APOD: A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea (2012 Jun 13)

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:06 am
by Drooler
Yea i agree enough with the Venus thing, really riding this event Oo.

Re: APOD: A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea (2012 Jun 13)

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:50 am
by owlice
ta152h0 wrote:I was so curious i just had to google this and guess what, not so long ago

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120527.html
That was a transit of Mercury. You really had to Google for it?? It's still on the first page of this forum; scrolling down would have been faster.
Drooler wrote:Yea i agree enough with the Venus thing, really riding this event Oo.
This event will not happen again in your lifetime; no one who saw this one will see the next. This is a great shot, one of many that were taken of this rarest of eclipses. I'm with Beyond; I'll take a dozen!

Re: APOD: A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea (2012 Jun 13)

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:04 pm
by orin stepanek
It is a worthy picture to use as a background! Nice photo Jens Hackmann! 8-) :wink:

Re: APOD: A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea (2012 Jun 13)

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:38 pm
by saturno2
This is a beatiful image.
The Sea, the Sun, Venus, the Universe..

Re: APOD: A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea (2012 Jun 13)

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:57 pm
by RJN
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
This is a video of the entire sunrise! I was unaware of the video when I wrote this APOD. Jens himself mentions the video in the Facebook comments about the image, found here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 985&type=1

- RJN

Re: APOD: A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea (2012 Jun 13)

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:46 pm
by Boomer12k
That's not Venus.....its a Battle Station!!!!


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Re: APOD: A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea (2012 Jun 13)

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:25 am
by Mila
RJN wrote:
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
This is a video of the entire sunrise! I was unaware of the video when I wrote this APOD. Jens himself mentions the video in the Facebook comments about the image, found here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 985&type=1

- RJN
There's a very nice mirages of the sun, boats and Venus in this video. Might be a good idea to post it in a separate APOD.

Re: APOD: A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea (2012 Jun 13)

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:49 pm
by Moonlady
RJN wrote:
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
This is a video of the entire sunrise! I was unaware of the video when I wrote this APOD. Jens himself mentions the video in the Facebook comments about the image, found here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 985&type=1

- RJN

This is so unique and astonishing!

It is worth to upload this as an AVOD since many people do not find their way to the discuss section, Captain! :thumb_up: :yes: :clap: