The 2004 Transit of Venus
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Summary: Every 120 years or so a dark spot glides across the Sun. Small, inky-black, almost perfectly circular, it's no ordinary sunspot. Not everyone can see it, but some who do get the strangest feeling, of standing, toes curled in the damp sand, on the beach of a South Pacific isle.... Get the full story from Science@NASA.

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Unless otherwise stated, all images are copyrighted by the photographers.

  Photographer, Location Images Comments

Jarle Aasland,
Stavanger, Norway
Jun. 08, 2004		 #1

Shot through a hole in the clouds. Nikon D100, 25mm EP, Orion Skyview Pro 127.

Wah!,
Hong Kong
Jun. 08		 #1, #2

First contact is prime focus. After first contact is with 2x barlow. Details: ToUCam, C8, CGE mount

Doucats & Wah!,
Hong Kong
Jun. 08		 #1

Second contact. Details: ToUCam, C8, CGE mount

Kedar Bhat, Girish Vaze, Swapneel Kore,
Mulund, Mumbai, India
Jun. 08		 #1, #2, #3

ETX 90 on LXD-55 Mount, Nikon D100, Prime Focus, 1/200 sec.

Parssky.com,
Esfahan city, Iran
Jun. 08		 #1, #2, #3

Photography info : Digital Camera 3 MG Picxel , 8 " Telescope

Subaru,
Hong Kong
Jun. 08		 #1

Venus transit second contact, 20040608 05:31:05UT ND3.8 + C5 + Nikon D70, ISO200, 1/3000 exposure.

Jan Simons,
Booischot,Belgium
Jun. 08		 #1, more

Used equipment: Skywatcher Refractor 6' f8 + 32 mm Kelner + Baader AstroSolar + Nikon Coolpix 5400 ISO 200, 1/2000s exposure

Richard Fusniak,
Cambridge UK, 6.45 am local time
Jun. 08		 #1

A little bit blurred but this shows what can be done by photographing a PROJECTED image 1m from 10x50 binoculars. The image disc was 150mm in diameter on a paper screen. Fuji Finepix 2800 camera.

Adam Jesionkiewicz,
Warsaw/Poland
Jun. 08		 #1, #2, #3, more

Canon 300D, FL2400, ISO200, 1/250 sec.

more: from Michael Donovan of Buderim, Queensland, Australia ("Buderim is near the Glasshouse Mountains, which were named by Captain Cook.");

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