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Photographer

David Michael Carter

E-mail

Michael@DCTX.com

Location

League City, TX

Date

June 5, 2012 - 8:10 PM

Equipment

Canon 550D (handheld) and Canon 55-250mm (at 250mm) Shot Settings: Manual Exposure, ISO 100, F/20, 1/4000" Tweaked with DPP

Description

The June 5, 2012 transit of Venus, just minutes before sunset.
 

Photographer

Thomas Scripps

E-mail

tascripps@gmail.com

Location

Evergreen, Colorado

Date

June 5, 7:50 PM MDT

Equipment

16"Meade stopped to 6" with Samsung Galaxy Note camera

Description

After being covered by alternating high and low clouds though most of the transit, I was able to get a few shots right at sunset. The trees are about two miles away so their silhouettes worked out well against the setting sun.
 

Photographer

Amir Sourena Azizi

Location

Tehran

Date

6 June 2012 @ 6:17 AM

Equipment

Canon EOS 550d, EF-S 55-250 telephoto Lens (@250mm), f32, 1/4000s ISO-100,

Description

Venus transiting the sun just after sunrise in Tehran. Power transmission towers are far from my observing site.
 

Photographer

Michele Brusa

E-mail

michele.brusa@tiscali.it

Location

Montevenere (Bologna-Italy)

Date

2012/06/06 03:50 U.T.

Equipment

Nikon D7000 with ob 300mm

Description

Fantastic sunrise
 

Photographer

Wojciech Piskorz

E-mail

wojpisk@gmail.com

Location

Gliwice, Poland

Date

06.06.2012

Equipment

Canon 350D, TSAPO65Q

Description

Transit of Venus from Gliwice in Poland. It was cloudy but the sun finally shone.
 

Photographer

Amirali Momeni

Location

Iran

Date

june 6 , 2012

Equipment

canon eos 50D + 70-200 lens

Description

venus transit
 

Photographer

Brad Richens

Location

Killam, Alberta

Date

June 5,2012 8:30pm

Equipment

TV85 refractor, Type 2 glass solar filter(thousand oaks) Canon Rebel EOS T2i, Tripod mount

Description

For the final time after a day of cloud chasing the Venus and the Sun set into a cloud deck about an hour befor sunset for the last time from our location.
 

Photographer

Hugo Liu

E-mail

huigwo.liu@msa.hinet.net

Location

Miao-Li, Taiwan

Date

6am~1pm, June 6, 2012

Equipment

Modified EOS7D, FSQ106ED+1.6x, Thousand Oaks Solar Filter. Adobe Photoshop CS5 post process.

Description

Just after 2nd contact, it seems appear black drop effect.
 

Photographer

John Dykes

Location

Carson City, Nevada at the Jack C Davis Observatory

Date

June 5, 2012 @7:20PM

Equipment

Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 500mm lens w/1.4 extender on a tripod.

Description

Photo shows Venus transit at sunset from the east side of the Sierras
 

Photographer

Daniel Perry

Location

GMARS in Landers, California

Date

August 12, 2012 at about 1:30AM PT

Equipment

Takahashi FSQ-106ED, FLI ML11002-C, AP900 mount

Description

A Perseid meteor streaks by the Heart Nebula, leaving a green and yellow-orange trail.
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