2012 Venus Solar Transit, June 5-6

[NovaSilisko]

Clouds rolled in right as the transit started.

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What are you using to project the image?

An 80mm Maksutov Cassegrain telescope.

 

[Keatah]

Waiting to see what the lady comes back with. Armed with a cellphone camera only..

 

[Mattyv]

A lot of people had this problem today. (including me)

 

[Felipi1205]

I couldn't see it in the sky, ANYWAY! It is the WORST possibility!

 

[Artlav]

So far, the weather is a no-go.
But there are some gaps in the clouds and 2 more hours left, so there is still some hope.

I wish i had a hot air balloon though.

 

[Pablo49]

The weather worked out here. Hazy for Venus starting to enter the disc, after that apparently "partly cloudy" means only cloudy nowhere near the sun. Then I stayed at the park and enjoyed the sunset. I had a great day.

 

[Yoda]

My best picture for the day; not too shabby for continues thin cloud-cover.

 

[Artlav]

Yes, finally an alignment between a hole in the cloud and the sun.
The glimpse was only a few seconds long, but i've seen it.

There was no time for pictures.

 

[Yoda]

Yes, finally an alignment between a hole in the cloud and the sun.
The glimpse was only a few seconds long, but i've seen it.

There was no time for pictures.

Glad you got to see it ; a 105 year wait is such a bitch

 

[orb]

I had 5 opportunities to see the Sun this morning. I missed the first one, which was through a large gap in clouds (for about 5 minutes), because I was still at home and couldn't completely see it without getting outside. Next one I missed because of the solar filters on binoculars and a relatively thin layer of clouds (natural filters, FTW). I couldn't see anything with filters on, but when I took them down there were already thick clouds.

Last 3 opportunities were great, even much better than I imagined and remembered from the previous transit, although each of them lasted only for about 20 seconds. And for the last hour a complete overcast, so I finally got back home.

 

[astrosammy]

Only one 10 minute gap between rise above trees and clouds.

 

[Artlav]

Glad you got to see it ; a 105 year wait is such a bitch

Yeah, i'd have to take over the world to live that long, or just make a spaceship and see the transit at my leisure any time.

Got another glimpse, with the planet cut in half on the sun's edge.
Wasn't long enough to focus the camera on the big screen again, so no pictures at all.

 

[DanM]

I barely managed to see it, but I saw it. Just a fuzzy dot on a piece of paper. It was something of a last minute decision, but I'm glad I did it because I had an excellent night of star gazing afterward.

 

[Codz]

It got way too cloudy here for any decent views or pictures unfortunately. I did get some pictures of the Sun just before the transit though.

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By the way, here is an SDO image of the transit. Venus is just to the right of the Sun.

 

[IronRain]

This is a time lapse captured by ESA's Proba-2

 

[statickid]

My photo

Here's my photo, taken as a projection from binoculars onto paper, from Neah Bay, Washington, USA

 

[Keatah]

So much for cell-a-phone cameras.. This is all she got.
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[Unstung]

Looks like the ESA video became private, so here's the view from the SDO in 171 angstrom (extreme ultraviolet):

 

[Will]

Far too cloudy here in the South East of England

 

[Keatah]

View from Stellarium.. I grew up in a time when software like this wasn't available even to the highest offices of NASA or for that matter, any observatory. So this is still remarkable and amazing to me!

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