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PhotographerLeftyLocationCape Hatteras North CarolinaDateJun 5 7:12pm ESTEquipmentHandheld Homemade Solar Filter Canon EOS Rebel T1i 250mm lens F5.6 iso 200 Speed 1/800DescriptionWith the transit well under way a brief cloud appeared during sunset which lead to this great jupiter like photo. |
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PhotographerRod PommierLocationHaleakala, Maui, Hawaii, USADate2012-06-05 12:28 16:03 HSTEquipmentCelestron Super C8 Plus/fork mount, Byers drive. Canon EOS 20D DSLR at ISO 1600, 1/1250 second exposure. Hydrogen alpha solar filter at f/40.DescriptionThe transit of Venus of 2012-06-05 in hydrogen alpha, near the time of mid-transit. The image shows the hydrogen alpha network on the disk of the Sun, sunspots, which appear much smaller than in white light images, bright plages around sunspot groups, solar filaments (prominences in silhouette against the brighter solar disk) prominences around the edge of the chromosphere, and the silhouette of Venus. |
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PhotographerAsadollah GhamarinezhadLocationBandar Abbas, IranDate6/6/2012Equipmentcanon 60 D camera 100-400 canon lens manfrotto tripodDescriptionThe bird of freedom and good sense of a phenomenon |
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PhotographerAsadollah GhamarinezhadLocationGenu mountains,Bandar Abbas, IranDate6/6/2012Equipmentcanon 5D markii camera 3.5" Questar telescope startracker mountDescriptionI like this time! Waiting for another 105 years, and repeated again |
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PhotographerGilbert StarcherLocationGlen Gardner, NJDateJune 5, 2012 6:25 PM EDTEquipmentOrion AstroView 6 EQ reflector with projection box and Canon PowerShot S90 digital camera.DescriptionThis photo captures an airliner transiting the Sun with the planet Venus. |
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PhotographerRamiro Hernandez BandaLocationSaltillo MexicoDate5 june 2012Equipmenttelescope Solarmax 60mm on CG5 monture, DMK21AF cameraDescriptionWe had a happy clear sky, all the family enjoyed the transit in H-alfa, |
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PhotographerMaximilian TeodorescuLocationVama Veche, RomaniaDateJune 6, 2012EquipmentED 80mm Refractor and Canon 550D camera.DescriptionA superb summer day with a superb sunrise. But this time the Sun was not alone: a small dark patch appeared on it's disk just as the day star was trying to get lose from some clouds. It was the planet Venus, in a position in which it will return in a century or so. |
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PhotographerJJ ModigLocationGulf Shores, AlabamaDateJune 4, 2012 just before sunriseEquipmentI used a Canon 300d adapted to an 80mm telescope; ISO 800, 1/20 secDescriptionThis shows the moon during the partial eclipse before it sets behind the ocean haze. You can see a lighthouse, and some oil rigs or gas wells in the foreground. |
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PhotographerChris HemstockLocationChaco Canyon, New MexicoDateMay 20 8:15 pmEquipment90mm Coronado solar maxII souble stack Canon 60Da taken at prime. 1/200s, ISO 640 red channel used, processed in MaximDL and PhotoshopDescriptionThis photo caught the partially eclipsed sun setting behind juniper trees on a mesa above the canyon floor at Chaco Canyon. |
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PhotographerAndjelko GlivarLocationDonja Stubica, Croatia, EuropeDate06.06.2012., 4:37:46UT (6.37.46 local time)EquipmentWilliam optics FLT98 apo refractor, CGEM mount, Canon EOS 350D, Baader filter, 800ASA, 1/400.DescriptionIn my location, last two hour of transit was visible after sunrise. This is moment of third contact. |
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