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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  Photographer, Location Images Comments

Bruno Raeymaekers,
MIRA Public Observatory, Grimbergen, Belgium
Jun. 08
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The photographer and Venus... At MIRA Public Observatory, among many other telescopes, people could admire this view of the Sun+Venus with our heliostat. It projects an image of the sun (with a diameter of 140 cm) inside a lecture room.

Cees Bassa,
Beesd, the Netherlands
Jun. 08
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The event was spectacular, though most images look the same: the sun with a dot. Here is my try for something special. This is a multi-exposure on a single piece of film of the Venus transit. The first exposure, taken without a solar filter, captured the silhouette of the leaves and the blue background. After that 5 shots through a solar filter were taken to capture the Sun and transiting Venus. [Photo details; Olympus OM-1, Zuiko 300/4.5, Fuji Provia 100F; 10:04:40 UT, 1/250s @ F/32 w/o filter, then from 10:08:00 till 10:28:00 with 4 minute intervals 6x 1/125 s @ F/8 w/ filter.]

Anthony Ayiomamitis,
Athens, Greece
Jun. 08
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Thanks to pristine weather in the eastern Mediterranean, these time series photos represent a dedicated effort lasting nearly seven hours of this truly wonderful event! The absence of any dominant features on the solar disk, particularly sunspots, provided for a view which was both breathtaking and beyond any imagination possible. It begs a trip to Australia in 2012 for a second dose of this magnificent event!

Rolando Ligustri and Lucio Furlanetto,
Cast Observatory-Talmassons (UD) Italy
Jun. 08
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Date: 08 june 2004; time: 5:20-11:24 UT Site: Cast Observatory-Talmassons (UD) Instruments: C11 with Digicam Nikon Coolpix 4300

Quanzhi Ye,
Dalingshan,Guangzhou,China
Jun. 08
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2nd edition, SkyWalker 127F6.45 & Canon PowerShot A70.

Guus Besuijen,
Veere, The Netherlands
Jun. 08
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Coronado Nearstar/Solarmax 60 H-alpha with Canon PS A60 (ISO 200, 1/20 sec, F4.8) revealed Venus next to a giant solar flare when the transit had just started.

Richard Bosman,
Enschede Holland
Jun. 08
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I took these high resolution images of the Venus Transit to see if there is a "black drop" effect.

Jesús Ojeda,
Saint Francis, Wisconsin, USA
Jun. 08
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At sunrise the haze was so heavy that no solar filter was required for the first 15 minutes. Sony DSC-F707 digital camera attached to Meade 8' LX10 telescope.

Jack Newton,
in Washington DC
Jun. 08
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6:45 am Eastern Daylight Time; through thick fog taken from Washington, DC; Canon EOS Rebel digital camera and Coronado MaxScope 90 Halpha. 4/10 sec. exposure. Processed in MaxIm DL and Adobe PhotoShop

more: from Mike Lynch of Frankfort, Kentucky; from So Chu Wing of Hong Kong; from Richard Schueller of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA; from Darren Osborne at CSIRO Headquarters, Canberra, Australia; from Gilberto Klar Renner of Tramandai, RS, Brazil; from Furio Pieri of Prosecco- Trieste ITALY; from Marcos Cue and Juan D. Rodriguez of Leon, Spain (this is a projection of the Sun through a telescope onto a white screen); from Ivar Hamberg of Stockholm, Sweden; from Nejc Ucman of Verdun, Novo mesto, Slovenia; from Roland Nogal of Hillsborough, New Jersey, USA;

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