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The Transit of Venus 6th June, 2012
Joe Cali & Geoff Sims

This report is composed of four sections
1.    Main report page for Joe & Geoff 
2.    Gallery of our friends images        
(this page) 
3.    Animation page (  big file  3.7MB)  & link to Geoff's video file
4.    Explanation of why the path Venus appeared to be a curve rather than a straight line as shown on TV


Gallery of pictures of Venus during the 2012 transit taken by friends.  

Joerg & Gabi Ackermann
Hurghada at the Red Sea
(27°7'22"N, 33°49'46"E)

 Camera      Canon 5D
 Optics        Zeiss APQ 100/640 with 0.8x Astrophysics telecompressor
 Filter          Baader Herschel Wedge



 
Joerg was able to catch a part of the faint Lomonossov arc - the light of the Sun shining through Venus atmosphere at egress.









Bill Hall
Fernleigh Park, Canberra, ACT


 Nikon D700  ISO 200 f5.6 exposure  1/100th of a second.  120-600 Vivitar zoom with a 1.6X multiplier
Seymour Solar ND5 filter.  The image was taken at 10.02 AM on the 6th of June.




John Stone
North Oregon USA











Trevor Ireland
Balranald, NSW





Steven Shaw
Reid, Canberra, ACT



 
Transit of Venus - 6/6/12 - Take 2
Canon 7D, 70-200 f/2.8 with Stacked Canon 2x TC and Kenko 1.4x TC plus stacked ND filters (12 f stops attenuation using live view
& manual focussing then exposing using mirror lockup)   f/22, 1/4000sec, ISO100, at EFL 560mm
(note Kenko TC not recognised by the 7D so not included in the EXIF data)   Cropped & shapened in Photoshop.

 

1.    Main report page for Joe & Geoff 
2.    Gallery of our friends images        
(this page) 
3.    Animation page (  big file  3.7MB)  & link to Geoff's video file
4.    Explanation of why the path Venus appeared to be a curve rather than a straight line as shown on TV



Joe Cali
June 2012