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Photographer

Holly Perritt

Location

Aruba

Date

June 6, 2012 - sunset

Equipment

GE X5 camera

Description

Transit of Venus at sunset while vacationing in Aruba
 

Photographer

Amit Purandare

Location

Pune, India

Date

06.06.2012 09.48 a.m.

Equipment

Canon 1100 D with Tripod & Standard Badder Solar Filter

Description

This effect was captured Just before the Sun disappeared in a Huge Monsoon Cloud ISO 100 , Exposure- 1/150 sec , Aperture f/11
 

Photographer

Maximilian Teodorescu

E-mail

jupiter182002@yahoo.ca

Location

Vama Veche, Romania

Date

June 6, 2012

Equipment

ED 80mm Refractor and Canon 550D.

Description

The passing clouds gave an artistic feeling to the entire Transit scene, with Venus playing "Hide and Seek" behind the clouds.
 

Photographer

Parimal Dave

E-mail

parimaldave@gmail.com

Location

Fergusson College, Pune City, India.

Date

6th June, 8:30 am to 10:30 am

Equipment

Photography Equipment used - Canon 550D digital SLR camera attached to a 4 inch Celestron computerized telescope with a front end Baader Solar filter.

Description

Transit of Venus on 6th June 2012 - photography Observation by - Parimal Dave & Ketaki Dave - both Life members of JVP - India's oldest amateur astronomers association. Photography Location - From Fergusson College ground, Pune - 411004
 

Photographer

Ronald Waters

E-mail

shadowdoc31@yahoo.com

Location

Mauna Kea, HI

Date

June 5, 2012 / 1p to 6p

Equipment

Questar 3.5" / Coronado 60mm Ha filter

Description

A composite H-alpha image of the Venus transit which occurred on Tuesday, June 5, 2012.
 

Photographer

Peter M. Oden

E-mail

peter@oden.de

Location

Germany, Isle of Ruegen

Date

06/06/2012, 02:33 - 05:00 UTC

Equipment

Canon 550D with Skywatcher 4" Maksutov TIS DMK21 with Celestron C9.25

Description

I was lucky to capture all of the (visible part) transit of Venus in Germany. This is a composite of some of more than 2.000 pictures (which werde combined to a video sequence).
 

Photographer

Marco Ludwig

E-mail

marco.ludwig@sternwarte-nms.de

Location

Germany, Peenemünde

Date

06.06.2012

Equipment

Canon EOS 50D with Telescope 4 inch lens

Description

In Germany Sun and Venus were rising at 04:50 a.m. but only in the north of the country were good weather conditions. I watched the sunrise on the Baltic sea near the town Peenemünde, were Wernher von Braun constructed the rockets of World War 2. During the sunrise I was very lucky to sea kind of Fata Morgana-ship over the water right under the sun. Here is my picture:
 

Photographer

Asadollah Ghamarinezhad

E-mail

ghamarynezhad@gmail.com

Location

Bandar Abbas, Iran

Date

6/6/2012

Equipment

canon 60 D camera 100-400 canon lens manfrotto tripod

Description

The first moments of sunrise from the horizon to the shore of Hormuz with water vapor and fog
 

Photographer

Rishabh Jain

E-mail

megaphor@gmail..com

Location

New Delhi

Date

10 December 2011

Equipment

Canon 18-55 Lens at 18 mm with EOS Canon 550D (T2i)

Description

Total Lunar Eclipse with Statue of Mahavir at Ahinsa Sthal(Place of Non-violence and Peace)
 

Photographer

Lefty

Location

Cape Hatteras North Carolina

Date

Jun 5 7:05pm EST

Equipment

Meade Etx 105 With Homemade Solar Filter and Canon T1i DSLR

Description

I have been waiting 34 years for this Transit and brought the baby telescope to Cape Hatteras North Carolina (Outer Banks) on family Vacation. CLouds cleared up with 2 hours to spare. This photo clearly demonstrates the Tear drop Phenomena at Second Contact. We are only the seventh group to witness a transit of Venus in human hisory. WOW.
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