2012 Venus Solar Transit, June 5-6

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Universe Today: Tomorrow’s Transit Will be the First Photographed From Space (from ISS)

 

[T.Neo]

I have successfully constructed a Device that allows me to project the disk of the Sun onto a specially prepared surface. The fidelity of this projection is sufficient to render sunpots onto the projection surface.

I've taken some pictures with a digital camera, and they don't seem to have come out particularly well, but I'll see what I can do with them. I haven't tested the device at sunrise yet, though.

 

[Topper]

Hello,
i have one simple question:
Would a digi cam be damaged by photographing the sun?
I could set a very short exposure time or can a digicam be destroyed?

P.S., I just want look onto the monitor, not directly in the sun with my eye of courese...
So my question is just, if the chip or anything else on the cam can be damaged...

 

[Yoda]

Hello,
i have one simple question:
Would a digi cam be damaged by photographing the sun?
I could set a very short exposure time or can a digicam be destroyed?

P.S., I just want look onto the monitor, not directly in the sun with my eye of courese...
So my question is just, if the chip or anything else on the cam can be damaged...

Yes, the chip can be damaged if you don't use a filter to dimm the light, so I wouldn't even try.

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Have had a thin haze of clouds here all day; hope it clears up so I can seen this..............

 

[Mattyv]

I didn't think there was any chance of me seeing this, but it just occurred to me....
I live down the street from the Cincinnati Observatory:facepalm:

It is a bit cloudy here too at the moment, though.

 

[Codz]

How big should the projected Sun look from a 60mm refractor telescope?

 

[NovaSilisko]

How big should the projected Sun look from a 60mm refractor telescope?

Depends on how far away you're projecting it.

 

[Codz]

About 12 inches.

 

[Topper]

Weather forecast seems very bad here for the last change to see it in my life... :-(

 

[Codz]

Here is a website that'll let you see it live from three locations. http://www.ccssc.org/transit2012.html

 

[asbjos]

On NASA's website, you can watch live streaming and up-to-date pictures from all over the world: http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/webcasts/nasaedge/

 

[Yoda]

Skies here are off and on cloudy/clear............keeping my fingers crossed !

 

[Codz]

Same here.

 

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t79iec2b-3M"]Transit of Venus - Live - YouTube[/ame]

 

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The transit is starting.

 

[Yoda]

Yes,

Hole in the clouds opening up; here's a first raw image.

 

[NovaSilisko]

I had a pretty nice view, even caught the black drop effect (not in a picture, though...)

 

[Unstung]

It would've probably been better to project the sun, but I already figured out how to use my 300mm telephoto lens and eclipse glasses.

This is unedited except cropped (at about 80% magnification). I may edit the image later.

Three posts with pictures of the transit in three minutes, wow.

 

[Codz]

Clouds rolled in right as the transit started.

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I had a pretty nice view, even caught the black drop effect (not in a picture, though...)

What are you using to project the image?

 

[Yoda]

This was first contact for me through the clouds

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My last shot; clouds are coming back in and the sun is about to set behind the mountains (damn Colorado).
Anyway, I can oficially say I've seen it !