2012 Venus Solar Transit, June 5-6

[Keatah]

I guess ESA reposted their video in a higher resolution..

 

[Gerdih]

:woohoo: Yes! I saw it from Barcelona projecting the image in a paper with my telescope!

 

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NASA Goddard: SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit

 

[Suzy]

It was cloudy in Melbourne but I got good views through cloud gaps and we had the full 6 hour transit visible here My setup was a bit primitive (projected through binoculars onto paper) but I managed to get some photos. (I also saw the 2004 transit the same way)

Couple of articles: "An Australian view of Venus", "Why is the transit of Venus so rare?"

 

[tblaxland]

I guess ESA reposted their video in a higher resolution..
Venus solar transit 2012 - Proba-2's journey across the Sun - YouTube

That video is an excellent demonstration of parallax - compare the sinusoidal path of Venus across the Sun with the one from SDO

 

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Universe Today: Thierry Legault: One Transit is Not Enough (Transit of Venus combined with transit of HST)

 

[Artlav]

If you've seen these picture without comments, would you call them real or fake?

JAXA's Solar-B got one of the best seats:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hinode/venus_transit_hinode.html

 

[T.Neo]

There seem to be some kind of anti-aliasing errors on the sunward limb of Venus, between the atmospheric haze and the planet's surface, as is sometimes encountered in simulators such as Orbiter or Celestia. Based on that, I would say fake...

 

[Yoda]

These are actually real images; doesn't take much magnification to get this and it looks like they were taken from some earth orbiting source due to the lack of atmospheric disturbance in the image.

 

[T.Neo]

I'm aware of that; I was just answering Artlav's question 'If you've seen these pictures without comments, would you call them real or fake?'.

 

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NASA: Viewing the Transit of Venus From Space