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Photographer

Bill Hood

E-mail

wchphoto@aol.com

Location

Los Angeles, CA

Date

6/5/12 afternoon

Equipment

Image shot with a Nikon 600mm lens at f/4 and 1/1250 sec using a mylar filter.

Description

Airliner joins the Venus transit.
 

Photographer

Fernando Roquel Torres

E-mail

roqueltechnologies@gmail.com

Location

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Date

6/5/2012 - 6:30PM

Equipment

Celestron 114LCM, CG3 Manual Mount, Eyepiece 32mm Solar Filter / Casio Exilim 14.1 MP Afocal Mode

Description

In this photo shows the transit of venus and many sunspots (1493, 1496, 1498, 1497) at 6:30PM. This event will not be repeated until 2117.
 

Photographer

Michele Brusa

E-mail

michele.brusa@tiscali.it

Location

Montevenere (Bologna Italy)

Date

2012/06/06 03:40 U.T.

Equipment

Nikon D7000 ob 300mm

Description

The last transit of Venus in our life
 

Photographer

Sid Leach

E-mail

sidleach@cox.net

Location

Scottsdale, Arizona

Date

June 5, 2012

Equipment

Image taken with a Takahashi FCT-150 six inch refractor with a Thousand Oaks Optical solar filter using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel camera.

Description

The Venus transit was still in progress when the Sun set behind the mountains in Arizona. Eight years ago I traveled to Mauritius Island to view the 2004 transit, but I got to see the entire transit!
 

Photographer

TS Phang

Location

Volgograd, Russia

Date

06-06-2012, 0700 local time

Equipment

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 + ND400 filter + CPL filter + UV filter

Description

A view of Venus Transit from Volgograd, Russia. Cropped and edited for clearer view.
 

Photographer

Kshitija Kelkar

E-mail

m31andliril@gmail.com

Location

Pune, India

Date

6th June 2012, 09:16 am IST

Equipment

Canon 1000D with tripod and standard Baader filter

Description

We missed most of the event due to rain and cloud cover.Luckily we got a pocket of relatively minimum cloud cover for few minutes.... ISO 100, Exposure - 1/80 sec and aperture- 5.6
 

Photographer

mohammad khalilbeigi

Location

Varamin,IRAN

Date

2012/6/6

Equipment

canon 7D,300mm,f45,shutter speed 1/8000 without filter

Description

sunrise and venus transit
 

Photographer

Michele Brusa

E-mail

michele.brusa@tiscali.it

Location

Montevenere (Bologna Italy)

Date

2012/06/06 03:45 U.T.

Equipment

canon powershot g9 and binocular celestron bigbino 15x70

Description

Jupiter with Io? No, the Sun with Venus!
 

Photographer

Bobby Buddhai

E-mail

bhabashi11@gmail.com

Location

Winnetka, CA

Date

June 5, 2012 @ 6:21pm

Equipment

Canon 550D 55-250mm

Description

The last Venus transit of a lifetime.
 

Photographer

Tom Conway

Location

Ramona Airport, Ramona CA

Date

6/5/2012 3:24 PDT

Equipment

Celestron C-6 NGT, Canon 40D at prime focus, off-center solar filter of Baader Astro Filter material

Description

Transit of Venus, 2012, Contact II
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