Transit of Venus

[FrankS]

You guys with images did a fantastic job. Respect!

 

[Haigh]

Great to see these. Thanks for posting them.

 

[Richard G]

I have a shot taken by a friend on his iPhone while I held the binoculars to the sun and projected it onto the back cover, grey, of the Thames and Hudson Photofile volume on Saul Leiter just arrived from Amazon. White paper hurt my eyes. My colleagues enjoyed it. I was worried about harming my Leica 8x42 binoculars but the online advice was to periodically rest the eyepiece from the concentrated rays and I did this and there was no mishap. Can't wait for the next one.

 

[Pherdinand]

just a pimple on the Sun... what's the big excitement about? 😀
sorry...

 

[pvdhaar]

just a pimple on the Sun... what's the big excitement about? 😀
sorry...

Next transit is scheduled for 2117. If you missed this one, there won't be another one in your lifetime.

Here (Netherlands) we had completely overcast skies with rain, so unfortunately I didn't catch it 🙁

 

[Blanc]

The same here in my small corner of France, I was ready at 5 waiting for it with a nice sky, when the first rays of the sun started to show the clouds too, they were completely covering the sky before we can see the disk...

 

[Pherdinand]

Next transit is scheduled for 2117. If you missed this one, there won't be another one in your lifetime.

Here (Netherlands) we had completely overcast skies with rain, so unfortunately I didn't catch it 🙁

well, i'm optimistic. 😉
now at least there's a good reason to live very long!

 

[oftheherd]

Really great shots everyone. Except you all need to clean your lenses! There's a lot of spots there. 😀

I'm actually envious. To much cloud cover here. I was planning to project through a telescope as some of you did. I did that many years ago for a partial eclipse. Works pretty well.

 

[stratcat]

Here in Mexico it was cloudy too but I managed to get a shot with my Canon 450D and 250mm Canon zoom lens. I stacked every filter I could and shot at 1/4000 f/32 ISO 100.

The Sun is so powerful that it still came out overexposed but with Venus clearly discernible. I then used software on the RAW file to lower exposure and 'recover' highlights.

Not great images but I feel glad that I managed to capture a snapshot of the event. 🙂

 

[MikeL]

Weird how the sun and Venus look roundish while the Earth is flat.

 

[stratcat]

Weird how the sun and Venus look roundish while the Earth is flat.

It is weird, is it not? At dawn June 4, 2012 there was a partial Moon eclipse visible in Mexico and I got a shot too...

I still cannot understand how it is that the shadow covering the moon is, paraphrasing you, 'roundish'...

 

[MikeL]

I still cannot understand how it is that the shadow covering the moon is, paraphrasing you, 'roundish'...

That just an effect, something to do with the way the Earth's corner projects a shadow on something roundish (moon).

Or you were too aggressive with the vignette slider.

 

[MikeL]

Makeshift observatory : binoculars duct taped to tripod then projected onto a piece of paper inside a Amazon Box.
E-M5 with 43 50mm handheld.

And D., without a picture of your rig it didn't happen.

 

[Marel]

I thought I might share with you some of the photos I took during the Venus transit event in Reykjavík. I didn't want to try to photograph the sun itself, I choose rather to focus on the spectators. There was quite a crowd on our local hill, by the building Perlan, some say 1.500 people. We had an almost clear view of the transit, a few clouds but the sun was visible until it set (it rose again when the transit was still ongoing, but I was fast asleep by then).

I made a set on flickr with more transit-photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gunnarmarel/sets/72157630199727276/

And the technicalities: Leica M6, CV 35mm f/1.4 SC, Tri-X, local lab developed.