This image shows the International Space Station and Venus transiting the Sun at the same time. The event was visible inside a narrow corridor (only a few hundred meters wide) stretching across Slovakia.

Photo details: Lens: Rubinar 5.6/500 + Baader Astro Solar filter, camera: WebcamPhilips TouCam Pro, Guiding: Vixen GPDX, Exposition: 1/10 000 s at frame rate 30images/sec.

Just for fun: Five out of six of these dark spots are a flock of birds, one is not. Can you find the planet?

Seen through lots of turbulent atmosphere at sunrise, Venus seems to boil! Photo details: 1/80th of a sec. exposure time using an Olympus 4000Z digital camera set at 100 ISO coupled to a Questar 3.5 with no solar filter.

Low tech on holiday - 10x25mm binoculars, a piece of paper, and great architecture.

Venus transit photographed in hydrogen-alpha light using an SBIG STL-11000 camera and and Astro-Physics 155EDF telescope shortly after sunrise.

Details: Olympus C750UZ at maximum optical zoom and using a #13 welder's mask filter.

Photos of the Venus transit were taken with my Nikon Coolpix 8700 digital camera and my Meade ETX-125 telescope.

Thick, but fast moving, cloud covered Northern Scotland all morning. I waited patiently and the cloud momentarily thinned enough to allow me to witness and photograph the transit. Exposure was 1/1600 Sec @ f/16 and ISO 100 equivalent film speed.

An old 115cm reflector was adorned with a projection device constructed of bamboo sticks held together with rubber bands, wrapped in cheap black cloth and with a white card screen stapled to the end. The whole event was watched till sunset whereupon flocks of whistling ducks could be seen flying across the image of the Sun and Venus as they landed in the swamp for the night. Photos were taken by a hand-held digital camera (with bottle of beer in the other hand as a counter-balance)

Where is the black drop? The black drop effect was expected twice and unvisible twice--both in eyepiece and on the pc monitor even after webcam movies processes (20 stacked frames each). Was the old Unitron 102mm f/15refractor 'too good' ,the seeing and focus too favourable ? Vision of luminous atmospheric crescent absolutely dramatic in eyepiece of course even a little for the Toucam.

Mike O'Leary, on the other hand, saw the black drop effect clearly. Details: Canon 10D mounted on a Celestron C-5 telescope. "Amazing sight," says Mike.

more: from Ulrike Haug near Stuttgart, Germany; from David Crawford at The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London; a movie from Sander Klieverik of Denekamp, the Netherlands; from Doug Askew at Chestnut Ridge Metro Park near Columbus, Ohio; from some sky watchers in Hong Kong; from David Le Conte of Guernsey, Channel Islands; from Dave Massey of Wilmslow, Cheshire, United Kingdom; from Jean Guimond of Quebec city, Quebec, Canada; from Geoff Sims of Sydney, Australia; from Quanzhi Ye of Dalingshan, Guangzhou, China; from Richard F Malone of Wilbraham , MA; from Robert Lenz on Jones Beach in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada; from Shane Finnigan of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; from Tony Surma-Hawes at the lighthouse at Vlamingh Head near Exmouth, Western Australia.