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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 |
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Jan
Koeman,
Middelburg, The Netherlands
Jun. 08, 2004 |
#1, |
Celestron
C8 with Baader filter and Nikon Coolpix 4500, 100 iso,
1/40 sec f5, 1 stop underexposed to reveal the atmosphere
of Venus |
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William
E. Rison,
Wayside, Maryland, USA
Jun. 08 |
#1 |
This
picture was taken without a solar filter because the sun
was very low to the horizon and low clouds. Photo details:
Nikon D100 digital camera, 200 ASA, 1/90sec. Vixen FL102S
fluorite refractor, 4', f/8. |
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Jerry
Xiaojin Zhu,
Pittsburgh, PA
Jun. 08 |
#1,
#2 |
Photo
1: Double transit! An airplane happened to transit the
sun too. Photo 2: the ring of light around Venus. From
4 photos seconds apart. All with 8'/f6 Dob, Baader filter,
18mm eyepiece, Nikon coolpix 995 camera. |
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Carol
Lakomiak,
Tomahawk Wis. USA, 45N 89W
Jun. 08 |
#1,
more |
It
was a cloudy sunrise, but thankfully they opened up a
bit for about 10 minutes. Nikon CP4300 and Meade 90mm
ETX at 31x. |
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Vince
Chrisman,
Sterling Heights, MI
Jun. 08 |
#1 |
Tear-drop
effect. Taken with a Meade LX200 GPS 10' UHTC and a Casio
Exilim digital camera held to the eyepiece. -Warren Astronomical
Society |
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Dr.
Tim Smith,
Crawley, West Sussex, U.K.
Jun. 08 |
#1,
#2, #3 |
Images
projected with 60 mm terrestrial refractor, with a magnification
of 60x. Photographed with an Olympus mju-300 at 9.15 UT.
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Doucats,
Wah! & Zephix,
Yuen Long, Hong Kong
Jun. 08 |
#1 |
Celestron
c80wa, 300D. After chasing with Venus transit for a whole
day, we finially have to say goodbye to the Sun and Venus.
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Iliyan
Darganov,
Varna, Bulgaria
Jun. 08 |
#1,
#2, more |
Nikon
Coolpix 995, 64/800-mm telescope, 40-mm eyepiece, AstroSolar
filter. The weather was cloudy but at the 3-th contact
the sky was clear. |
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George
Fleenor,
Bradenton, Florida
Jun. 08 |
#1 |
Venus
transit at sunrise with light cloud cover as seen from
Manatee County, Florida. Nikon D100 2 sec exp @ 900mm
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more:
from Runar Sandnes
of Gloppen, Norway; from
Philippe Moussette of Québec, Canada; from
Bill Walbek of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, USA; from
John Yurek of Irwin, Pennsylvania, USA; from
Danny Bekerman of Petach Tikva, Israel; from
David Stanislaw of Troy, Ohio, USA; from
John Kocijanski of Central Valley, NY, USA; from
Joseph Horne of Lake Wales, Florida, USA; from
Ed Scott of Tampa, Florida, USA;
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