My lovely wife is snapping photos already, as it has just started. Here’s a sample.
Canon 1D, ND400 filter, Hoya G filter, telephoto lens.
Via the WUWT Solar Page, here’s the image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory
closeup:
My lovely wife is snapping photos already, as it has just started. Here’s a sample.
Canon 1D, ND400 filter, Hoya G filter, telephoto lens.
Via the WUWT Solar Page, here’s the image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory
closeup:
Thank you. Beautiful image, and useful links. According to an article in this morning’s Los Angeles Times, this transit is the second of the pair this century. The next one visible from this area will be in 2117. I set up my Wild T-2 so my family and I could watch and photograph the transit projected onto a white card – sunshot fashion. The little black spot slowly moving across the face of the sun puts everything into perspective.
I see a horse…
These days, I’m very rustic with a pinhole camera. Takes almost 2 m to resolve Venus, but I did. The sun hasn’t set, but it just went behind some cirrus, so I think we’re done here. Hope you continue to have better luck about 100 miles north of us, Anthony.
Venus was a lot larger than I expected. I was expecting something like the composite pictures that compare the size of the planets to the size of the sun. I did not think about the orbit is 0.72 x Earths orbit so it looked 4x larger than the little dot I thought I would see. Seeing varied from indifferent to quite good at 32x here in MN.
Meet the newest member of the Team…
…specializing in Solar physics.☺
RoHa says:
June 5, 2012 at 6:56 pm
@Luther Wu
“and a Haka gets done just for you…”
Well, what do the Kiwis expect? NZ is one of those countries which only exists so that the neighbour can make fun of it, just like Norway, Canada, Belgium, and Wales.
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Someone’s making fun of Canadians, eh?
The Gall of those Hoseurs!
Thank you! And Venus would look even smaller if it was at Mercury’s orbit.
RoHa says:
June 5, 2012 at 6:56 pm
NZ is one of those countries which only exists so that…
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Oz is unique. It exists to make everything else look good.
and this is something that has only been seen seven times
Sweet!
Bloody weather in Japan… stoopid Typhoon kicking cloud and Failure over me – there was one 10-minute window of opportunity where there was a gap in the cloud, and I tried taking some photo’s with my camera and a decent filter but to no avail… then by the time I got my telescope out and set up, the cloud closed in again – ces’t la vie!
The consolation is that Keck Observatory is doing a splendid live webcast on Ustream.
Also, great photos guys!
Ferd: My fav Australia joke is from a bunch of Australian blokes.
That’s the short version, but fun. It really encourages us potential tourists. So catchy!
It was pouring rain in Calgary, when a little thin spot appeared in the clouds, and BINGO, I grabbed my beat up old Cybershot and snapped this one:
http://tuxedo-mines.com/closeup.JPG
Really impressive. Thanks for that.
Snapped this about 45 minutes ago, as the sun set over the San Francisco Bay. Hand held, 400mm Canon lens with polarizing and red filters. It was too fricking cold to get the tripod set up.
http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/4294/transitofvenus2.jpg
@ferd berple
There is a continual stream of immigrants from NZ to Australia. The Kiwis say that this raises the average IQ of both countries.
Wow! Fantastic pictures Mrs. Watts. This removes all doubts as to why wuwt.com is the most viewed science website. Well done.
Well I started recording shots right at 1500 in Sunnyvale CA. Wasn’t supposed to start till 1503. Can’t say I could detect Venus before 1515, but when I first saw it, it was just a kink in the solar limb. I quit taking pictures at 1700, as a tree was going around the earth and going to block the sun.
I was using a Nikon D3100, and the solar disk completely filled the narrow width of the DX format. I shot at 400 ASA, and 1/200th second exposures (some at 1/400, and 1/1000 (too dim)) Taken through 1400 mm Questar, whick normally would be f/16 but I was using a small 30 mm off axis chromium sun filter.
I just sat the Questar down on the driveway, and didn’t even check the axis altitude, an pointing, and the sun stayed pretty much on screen for the whole 2 hours. Biggest problem was the brain dead Nikon D3100, which won’t stay in the so-called live view mode, for more than a few seconds.
My pocket P&S Panasonic is infinitely smarter, and can operate in live view indefinitely. So I had to keep re-tripping the mirror each time to check image alignment.
Got lots of sunspots as well as the planet. Don’t know if I got the focus right, but with the very small aperture f/47, there probably is too much diffraction.
Don’t have any way to post the pictures. I’ll probably get some beter shots next time.
my bad
http://wattsupwiththat.com is the most viewed science website and most appreciated.
“…There’s a little black spot on the sun today. It’s the same old thing as yesterday…”
Lyrics, King of Pain – Police.
How long can it be before some nutter claims to detect wayward CO2 gas blown off Venus and subsequently sucked into the Earth’s atmosphere?
From Australia is easier to observe. Pictures taken with my mobile of projection from small telescope https://picasaweb.google.com/108213631878074583396/TransitOfVenusJune62012?authuser=0&feat=directlink
Here are my photos from Oakland, California, using a Nikon D800 and Sigma zoom at 500mm with 2x teleconverter and Mylar solar film:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150943185454826.440010.854289825&type=1&l=a23d1663fb
I got a picture of it through clouds (also a rare event) in Muscat http://ynotoman.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/transit-of-venus-from-muscat/
Kinda funny that all the “Science Sites” on the CAGW side are not mentioning a simple scientific curiosity of a planetary transit. NASA saw a good science moment even though we do not need to do the Halley geometry for distance anymore. Pettit was up in the ISS snapping shots.
Although, it was interesting tripping over an opinion over at James’ Empty Blog…http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/ 😉