Transit of Venus, Not unmannedspaceflight but it's in space, so.... |
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Transit of Venus, Not unmannedspaceflight but it's in space, so.... |
 Jun 6 2012, 12:14 AM
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 The Poet Dude  Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60  |
Hey, there will be gazillions of remarkable technical images online over the next few days, but none will be any more valuable than the ones taken by people like you, with simple equipment, but a full heart.
I'd love to see them. 
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Jun 6 2012, 12:20 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 219 Joined: 14-November 11 From: Washington, DC Member No.: 6237 |
Welding helmet + binoculars (one eye only, behind the filter)+ break in the clouds = success! Pretty cool naked eye, too.
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Jun 6 2012, 01:34 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
Beautiful clear day here in Brisbane. Started watching with colleagues this morning. Used binoculars with solar filters. Fantastic sight. Boss brought along his telescope and DSLR. Certainly makes up for the clouded out disappointment of trying to view the transit from Durham back in 2004.
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Jun 6 2012, 02:19 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1074 Joined: 21-September 07 From: Québec, Canada Member No.: 3908 |
Clouds managed to clear in the West for about an hour just before the transit began here in Québec City. Transit easy to see with simple projection through binoculars. Kids were enthusiastic, but my wife was a bit disappointed, she wasn't expecting the disk of Venus to be so small!
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Jun 6 2012, 02:30 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2082 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Remind her that this is another planet we are seeing, the only disc other than the moon or sun to be visible unaided from Earth.
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Jun 6 2012, 03:33 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
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Jun 6 2012, 05:53 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (Sunspot @ Jun 5 2012, 01:37 PM)  Cant beleive they have taken down access to the real time high res images, Venus has been visible in SDO cameras for over an hour. This is probably the busiest event for SDO's website for half a decade. To make sure as many people as possible saw as much as possible, they obviously did crops of images so we could all track every phase of the transit in those amazing images. Doing anything else would probably have seen their entire website go down for the duration of the event. All the images will be online again soon. Sometimes it amazes me that we are so astonishingly lucky to have the resources available to us, yet still people complain. Shameful. |
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Jun 6 2012, 07:24 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
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Jun 6 2012, 07:28 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Jun 6 2012, 06:53 AM) Shameful. . |
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Jun 6 2012, 07:32 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2082 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Or the 1760s for that matter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil Puts our own poor weather experiences in perspective... |
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Jun 6 2012, 07:40 AM
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I'll attach an image made from a photo snapped of a sheet of paper onto which my ancient 3" refractor projected the image. Then I removed the chromatic distortion, cloned the place where my thumb was and made the background (which was really in full daylight) scaled to blackish.
Hopefully I have this down to an art. Mercury transit in only ~4 years!
Attached thumbnail(s)
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Jun 6 2012, 07:56 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Here are two images I took today in rather dodgey ways.
Left: Taken by sticking a pair of eclipse glasses over the lens of my digital camera. Right: Handheld shot taking the view projected through a pair of sunglasses that were gaffer/duct taped to a tripod.
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Jun 6 2012, 08:17 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
well, finally I got to see both of the transits. I saw the one of 2004 in full from Italy, and I took a short vacation to see today's one from my parent house in Italy where it lasted only about one hour, because to see it where I live, in Toulouse, it would be even shorter...
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Jun 6 2012, 09:00 AM
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Woke up early this morning in Brussels, only to be greeted by a total eclipse... of the sky by dense clouds. My dad took these pics in Jutland, Denmark.
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Jun 6 2012, 09:03 AM
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