The solar chromosphere is clearly visible as is the sunlight refracted by Venus' atmosphere around the planet.

I took this photo using a projection method with a 60mm f15 refractor and a Kodak DX 4530 digital camera. I used a 20mm eye piece. I am also enclosing a photo of the sun just starting to rise above the horizon.

As the Sun was rising in the heavy hase, we could see Venus naked eye.... it was amazing! I took most of the shot's with a Takahashi Sky90II and my Canon 10-D

This photo shows the "ring of light"--i.e., the sunlit atmosphere of Venus.

Today's Venus transit expedition to Grassy Hill airport in Roxbury CT was fantastic! Low lying clouds dramatically withdrew just as the sun nudged through the tree-line, greeting us with a spectacular naked-eye preview (Venus was huge!) BTW, this is the first Venus transit ever seen in the H-alpha bandwidth! Cameras clicked away for well over an hour... I was able to grab 95 full-disk images during the session! I've only processed one of the images so far. The inset on the right is a cropped subsection from the RAW image in unreduced size.

This movie was assembled with pictures taken with a Canon 300D and a 10' Newtonian reduced to 8', to capture the visible ring of light that happened after the 3rd contact. It was perfectly visible for some time to the naked eye. Some frames of the movie also show hints of what could be the ashen light on the surface of Venus

Pentax 67 with 400mm Lens and two 2x rear extenders. Fuji Velvia ISO 50 cross processed as C-41. Exposure around 1/500sec at F32.

This is a new digital camera Nikon D70 With Intes Micro 150mm with a astrosolar filter and coronado H-Alpha.

Photos taken using a hydrogen-alpha solar filter and a Canon D60 digital camera. A horizon-level haze allowed naked eye viewing of the transit at sunrise. As the sun rose above the haze, I captured a sequence of the end of the transit in hydrogen alpha. I was amazed at how large the disk of venus was, I expected it to be much smaller.

more: from Vladimir Golendukhin of Rezh, Russia; from Erin Langsdorf of Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA; from Mark Jaworsky of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South Campus, Princeton Junction, NJ; from Gordon Rife of Schomberg, Ontario, Canada; from Rick Crew of Akron, OH, USA;